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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Foreign Policy This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Foreign Policy
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Foreign Policy When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Foreign Policy
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Foreign Policy No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Foreign Policy
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Foreign Policy A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Foreign Policy
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb 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 That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Foreign Policy Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Foreign Policy
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Foreign Policy Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Foreign Policy
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Foreign Policy I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Foreign Policy
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Foreign Policy The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Foreign Policy
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Foreign Policy Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Foreign Policy
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Foreign Policy I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Foreign Policy
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Foreign Policy The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Foreign Policy
