Britannia - Short article which combines information about Mary and her husband and co-ruler, William III.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Mary II "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Mary II
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Mary II 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 Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Mary II
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mary II A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Mary II
"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 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Mary II Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Mary II
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Mary II Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Mary II
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi 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 "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Mary II "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Mary II
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Mary II "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Mary II
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Mary II Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Mary II
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Mary II Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Mary II
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Mary II Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Mary II
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Mary II Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Mary II
