"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Wiltshire "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Wiltshire
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Wiltshire I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Wiltshire
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Wiltshire For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Wiltshire
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Wiltshire It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wiltshire
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Wiltshire "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Wiltshire
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Wiltshire Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Wiltshire
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Wiltshire If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Wiltshire
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Wiltshire Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Wiltshire
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Wiltshire "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Wiltshire
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Wiltshire Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Wiltshire
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Wiltshire Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Wiltshire
