"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Home and Garden Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "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 He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Home and Garden
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Home and Garden "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Home and Garden
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Home and Garden "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Home and Garden
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Home and Garden Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Home and Garden
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. In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Home and Garden Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Home and Garden
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Home and Garden Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Home and Garden
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Home and Garden If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Home and Garden
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Home and Garden My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Home and Garden
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 "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Home and Garden I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Home and Garden
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Home and Garden In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Home and Garden
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Home and Garden "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Home and Garden
