"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) 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.
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Authors Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Authors
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Authors The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Authors
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland 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 I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Authors "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Authors
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Authors My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Authors
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Authors Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Authors
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Authors "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Authors
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Authors The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Authors
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Authors Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Authors
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Authors "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Authors
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Authors "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Authors
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) 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 "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Authors I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Authors
