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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Graham Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly 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 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Graham
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Graham "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) 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 The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Graham
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Graham I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Graham
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Graham "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Graham
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Graham Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Graham
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Graham If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Graham
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Graham Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Graham
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Graham It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Graham
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Graham Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Graham
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage is a rest period between romances. Graham "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Graham
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Graham Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch 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 Graham
