Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Amateur Radio There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Amateur Radio
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Amateur Radio "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Amateur Radio
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Amateur Radio 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 A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Amateur Radio
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Amateur Radio A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Amateur Radio
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Amateur Radio Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Amateur Radio
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Amateur Radio Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Amateur Radio
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Amateur Radio A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Amateur Radio
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Amateur Radio Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Amateur Radio
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Amateur Radio "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Amateur Radio
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Amateur Radio Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Amateur Radio
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Amateur Radio "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Amateur Radio
