The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Melksham "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Melksham
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Melksham Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Melksham
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Melksham Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Melksham
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Melksham Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Melksham
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Melksham Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Melksham
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 Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Melksham "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Melksham
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Melksham "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Melksham
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Melksham Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Melksham
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Melksham Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness 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 Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Melksham
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Melksham Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre 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 "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Melksham
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous ... 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
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Melksham Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Melksham
