"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Parris, Matthew I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Parris, Matthew
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Parris, Matthew This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Parris, Matthew
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Parris, Matthew The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Parris, Matthew
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Parris, Matthew Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Parris, Matthew
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "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 Parris, Matthew "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Parris, Matthew
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Parris, Matthew Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words 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.
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Parris, Matthew
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Parris, Matthew People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Parris, Matthew
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Parris, Matthew In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker 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 We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Parris, Matthew
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Parris, Matthew Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Parris, Matthew
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Parris, Matthew "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) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Parris, Matthew
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Parris, Matthew 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 He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Parris, Matthew
