When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne P Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu P
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada P Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. P
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer P Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius P
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 "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" P Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown P
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. P It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin P
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') P "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve P
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 The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) P Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) P
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I P "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos P
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) P I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Man and wife make one fool. P
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows P The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle P
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 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 In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along P The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous P
