Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Loughbrickland your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Loughbrickland
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Loughbrickland 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 Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Loughbrickland
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Loughbrickland More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Loughbrickland
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Loughbrickland "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Loughbrickland
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Loughbrickland "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) 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 When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Loughbrickland
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Loughbrickland A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) 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
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Loughbrickland "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Loughbrickland
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Loughbrickland A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Loughbrickland
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Loughbrickland Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Loughbrickland
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents 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) Loughbrickland Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Loughbrickland
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "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 Loughbrickland "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Loughbrickland
