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"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Jonesborough the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter 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 Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Jonesborough
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 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 ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Jonesborough "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Jonesborough
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight 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 "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Jonesborough Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Jonesborough
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Jonesborough Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Jonesborough
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Jonesborough It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Jonesborough
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine What's new? Most of my wife. Jonesborough "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Jonesborough
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Jonesborough Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) "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) Jonesborough
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Man and wife make one fool. Jonesborough Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Jonesborough
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Jonesborough Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Jonesborough
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Jonesborough We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Jonesborough
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe 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 "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Jonesborough If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Jonesborough
