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Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Rannoch You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Rannoch
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Rannoch The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position 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.
-- Winston Churchill "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Rannoch
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Rannoch The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Rannoch
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Rannoch Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Rannoch
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Rannoch Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Rannoch
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Rannoch Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Rannoch
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Rannoch "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rannoch
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Rannoch Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Rannoch
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Rannoch A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Rannoch
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Rannoch "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Rannoch
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Rannoch What's new? Most of my wife. Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Rannoch
