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Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "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 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.
-- Crowf The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows MRC If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld MRC
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein MRC Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) MRC
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "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) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod MRC Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce MRC
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon 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 MRC Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton MRC
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson MRC Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell MRC
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo MRC In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko MRC
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. Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea 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 The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown MRC The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie MRC
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie MRC Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) MRC
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins MRC The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. MRC When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood MRC
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost MRC I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow MRC
