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When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Roberttown It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Roberttown
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Roberttown I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Roberttown
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Roberttown I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Roberttown
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Roberttown I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Roberttown
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Roberttown All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Roberttown
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Roberttown I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Roberttown
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Roberttown An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Roberttown
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Roberttown "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Roberttown
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Roberttown Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Roberttown
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Roberttown "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Roberttown
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Roberttown "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Roberttown
