Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Y Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Y
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Y Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Y
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Y "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Y
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Y Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Y
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Y It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Y
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Y Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Y
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Y "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Y
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Y Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Y
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Y Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Y
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Y "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Y
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Y Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Y
