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Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Downton Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Downton
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Downton "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Downton
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Downton Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Downton
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Downton Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Downton
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "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 I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Downton Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Downton
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Downton The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "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) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Downton
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Downton "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Downton
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Downton We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Downton
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Downton What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Downton
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Downton Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Man and wife make one fool. If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Downton
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "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) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Downton "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Downton
