Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Watson Wentworth, Charles "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Watson Wentworth, Charles
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Watson Wentworth, Charles I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Watson Wentworth, Charles
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Watson Wentworth, Charles The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Watson Wentworth, Charles
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Watson Wentworth, Charles When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Watson Wentworth, Charles
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Watson Wentworth, Charles Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Watson Wentworth, Charles
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Watson Wentworth, Charles There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Watson Wentworth, Charles
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Watson Wentworth, Charles "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Watson Wentworth, Charles
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Watson Wentworth, Charles Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Watson Wentworth, Charles
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Watson Wentworth, Charles I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Watson Wentworth, Charles
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Watson Wentworth, Charles 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 I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Watson Wentworth, Charles
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Watson Wentworth, Charles "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Watson Wentworth, Charles
