To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom C 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.
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) C
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing C My other wife is beautiful. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison C
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. C "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 C
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves What's new? Most of my wife. C Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton C
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) C Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Marriage is a rest period between romances. C
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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 Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James C "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) 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 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx C
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu 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 The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings C We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone C
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud C What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law C
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 C If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. C
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon C If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein C
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard C Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung C
