"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, L "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) L
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) L The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine L
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks L "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop L
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm L "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 "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben L
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) L Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses L
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver L Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken L
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and My other wife is beautiful. Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV L blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) L
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) 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 If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken L "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates L
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) L Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer L
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb L Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen L
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) L Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) L
