The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Cricket The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Cricket
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Cricket "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Cricket
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Cricket Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Cricket
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Cricket "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cricket
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Cricket The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Cricket
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Cricket A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Cricket
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 Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Cricket 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 Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Cricket
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Cricket Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "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) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Cricket
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "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) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Cricket Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Cricket
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Cricket If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan 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 Cricket
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Cricket "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Cricket
