A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Senses "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Senses
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Senses The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Senses
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Senses I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Senses
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Senses "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) 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 "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Senses
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Senses If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Senses
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Senses Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Senses
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Senses Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Senses
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Senses "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Senses
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Senses Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Senses
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Senses Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Senses
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Senses If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "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) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Senses
