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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Journals Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
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If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Journals He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Journals
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Journals It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Journals
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Journals The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Journals
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 The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Journals "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Journals
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Journals In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Journals
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Journals A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Journals
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "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) Journals "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Journals
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Journals Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Journals
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Journals Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Journals
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown 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 Journals Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Journals
