Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Chandlers Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Chandlers
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Chandlers 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 Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Chandlers
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Chandlers A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Chandlers
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Chandlers There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Chandlers
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Chandlers An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Chandlers
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "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) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Chandlers He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Chandlers
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Chandlers Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Chandlers
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Chandlers When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Chandlers
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea My other wife is beautiful. There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Chandlers When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Chandlers
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "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) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Chandlers "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Chandlers
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Chandlers A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Chandlers
