Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Personal Pages "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Personal Pages
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Personal Pages A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Personal Pages
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Personal Pages 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 Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Personal Pages The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Personal Pages
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous 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 I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Personal Pages Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Personal Pages
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Personal Pages Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Personal Pages
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Personal Pages
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Personal Pages The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Personal Pages
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) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Personal Pages For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Personal Pages
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Personal Pages "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Personal Pages
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Personal Pages "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Personal Pages
