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To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Stroke Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Stroke
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Stroke "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Stroke
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Stroke We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Stroke
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Stroke Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Stroke
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Stroke 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 The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Stroke
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Stroke Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Stroke
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Stroke "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Stroke
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." ( "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Stroke A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Stroke
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Stroke While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Stroke
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) 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 "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Stroke If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Stroke
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Stroke When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Stroke
