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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault News and Media Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne News and Media
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi News and Media These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage News and Media
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James News and Media Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) News and Media
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 the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin News and Media If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov News and Media
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem News and Media Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa News and Media
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived News and Media "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) News and Media
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill News and Media While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) News and Media
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine News and Media In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull News and Media
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler News and Media Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito News and Media
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley News and Media The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance 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 "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai News and Media
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 News and Media Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) News and Media
