You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Rothes The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Rothes
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Rothes I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Rothes
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Rothes Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Rothes
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Rothes If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Rothes
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "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) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Rothes Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Rothes
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Rothes Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Rothes
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Rothes Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "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) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Rothes
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton 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 "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Rothes "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Rothes
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Rothes Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Rothes
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Rothes Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Rothes
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Rothes Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Rothes
