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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Orthodox History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford My other wife is beautiful. "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Orthodox
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer 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 We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Orthodox I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Orthodox
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Orthodox When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Orthodox
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Orthodox "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Orthodox
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson 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 Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Orthodox "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Orthodox
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Orthodox The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Orthodox
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Orthodox Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Orthodox
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Orthodox "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Orthodox
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Orthodox Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Orthodox
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Orthodox Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Orthodox
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Orthodox The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Orthodox
