A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Larne Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Larne
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Larne Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Larne
"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) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Larne "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Larne
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. 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 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 Larne Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law 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 "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Larne
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Larne For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Larne
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Larne "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) 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 "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Larne
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Larne Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Larne
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Larne "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Larne
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Larne It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Larne
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Larne Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart 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 Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Larne
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Larne Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Larne
