We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster 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 "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Events and Festivals MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Events and Festivals
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Events and Festivals People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Events and Festivals
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Events and Festivals There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Events and Festivals
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Events and Festivals Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Events and Festivals
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "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." The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Events and Festivals Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) 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 Events and Festivals
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Events and Festivals Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Events and Festivals
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Events and Festivals It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Events and Festivals
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Events and Festivals Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Events and Festivals
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Events and Festivals Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Events and Festivals
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Events and Festivals blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows 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 Events and Festivals
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Events and Festivals There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
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