A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Z If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Z
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Z I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Z
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Z They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Z
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Z The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Z
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Z Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Z
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac 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 Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Z He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Z
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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." It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Z I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Z
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Z I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Z
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Z 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 Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Z
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Z Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Z
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) 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 Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Z "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Z
