International Falconer - A quarterly magazine covering all aspects of falconry worldwide, with online tables of contents. Some online articles from back issues. Maidstone, Kent, UK.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) News and Media "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter News and Media
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) News and Media "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little News and Media
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) News and Media A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso News and Media
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson News and Media You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West News and Media
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre News and Media "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "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 News and Media
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken News and Media I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) News and Media
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) News and Media "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through News and Media The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) News and Media
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package News and Media "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 News and Media
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST News and Media The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries News and Media
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous News and Media People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold News and Media
