The Age of George III - Comprehensive index of all the major events and themes of George III's reign with links to detailed information.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion George III Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland George III
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken George III [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln George III
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
George III The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making George III
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) George III To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) George III
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer George III You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan George III
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie George III Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time George III
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) 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 George III "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) George III
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) George III Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) George III
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre George III I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung George III
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein George III A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings George III
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde George III Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died George III
