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ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "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) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins East Knoyle I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford East Knoyle
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green East Knoyle When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) East Knoyle
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne East Knoyle How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) East Knoyle
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson East Knoyle I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton East Knoyle
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President East Knoyle Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) East Knoyle
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken East Knoyle blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) East Knoyle
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) East Knoyle If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran East Knoyle
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) East Knoyle "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) East Knoyle
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde East Knoyle I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun East Knoyle
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) East Knoyle "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman May you never leave your marriage alive. East Knoyle
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous East Knoyle "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner East Knoyle
