"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Schools A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Schools
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Schools I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Schools
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Schools To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Schools
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Schools What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Schools
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Schools "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Schools
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Schools "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Schools
"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) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Schools I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Schools
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Schools If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Schools
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Schools It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Schools
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Schools "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Schools
"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) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) May you never leave your marriage alive. We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Schools Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Schools
