I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Rugby The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Rugby
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Rugby Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Rugby
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Rugby Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Rugby
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Rugby Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Rugby
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Rugby There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Rugby
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Rugby We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Rugby
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) 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 Rugby "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Rugby
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Rugby "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Rugby
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Rugby Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Rugby
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Rugby Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Rugby
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Rugby "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Rugby
