The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr B "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu B
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) B Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker B
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi 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 B "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian B
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge B "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton B
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein B 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 I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen B
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West 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 B The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) B
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) B "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana B
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings B Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous B
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx B "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) B
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem B He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 B
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau B "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) B
