A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton I A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop I
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West I I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans What's new? Most of my wife. Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O I
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen I When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville I
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) I There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve I
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken I Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle I
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) I "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery I
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell I Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt I
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb I The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) I
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner I My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill I
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr I Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis I
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. I "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I
