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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus References I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown 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 References
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. References This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald References
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 References Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) References
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) References The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon 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 To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France References
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story 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 The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett References Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) References
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words References If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence References
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 Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) References He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker References
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball References I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes References
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers 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 References 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 Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is References
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) 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 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth References Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) References
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau References 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 Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton References
