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Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin West Lothian Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux West Lothian
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos West Lothian There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries West Lothian
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin 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 West Lothian Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short West Lothian
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) West Lothian "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli West Lothian History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine West Lothian
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) West Lothian I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 West Lothian
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington 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 West Lothian "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! West Lothian
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard West Lothian Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey West Lothian
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor West Lothian "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz 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 West Lothian
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying West Lothian Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt West Lothian
"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." The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein West Lothian The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley West Lothian
