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Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Isle of Jura Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Isle of Jura
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Isle of Jura When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Isle of Jura
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 Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Isle of Jura Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Isle of Jura
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson My other wife is beautiful. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Isle of Jura The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Isle of Jura
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Isle of Jura Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Marriage is a rest period between romances. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Isle of Jura
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Isle of Jura Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Isle of Jura
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Isle of Jura "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Isle of Jura
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Isle of Jura "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Isle of Jura
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Isle of Jura When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Isle of Jura
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Isle of Jura The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Isle of Jura
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Isle of Jura "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Isle of Jura
