Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley 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 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 There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Robinson, Frederick John "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Robinson, Frederick John
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson 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 "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Robinson, Frederick John I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Robinson, Frederick John
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Robinson, Frederick John He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Robinson, Frederick John
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Robinson, Frederick John "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Robinson, Frederick John
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Robinson, Frederick John "... 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) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Robinson, Frederick John
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Robinson, Frederick John He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Robinson, Frederick John
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Robinson, Frederick John Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "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) Robinson, Frederick John
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 Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Robinson, Frederick John "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Robinson, Frederick John
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Robinson, Frederick John "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Robinson, Frederick John
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Robinson, Frederick John If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Robinson, Frederick John
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Robinson, Frederick John A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Robinson, Frederick John
