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We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Isle of Iona "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) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Isle of Iona As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Isle of Iona
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Isle of Iona "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "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 Isle of Iona
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Isle of Iona My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Isle of Iona
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Isle of Iona "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Isle of Iona
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Isle of Iona A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
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A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Isle of Iona The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Isle of Iona
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Isle of Iona It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Isle of Iona
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "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) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Isle of Iona "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Isle of Iona
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Isle of Iona "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Isle of Iona
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Isle of Iona In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Isle of Iona
