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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Community and Youth Workers Union There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Community and Youth Workers Union
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Community and Youth Workers Union "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Community and Youth Workers Union
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Community and Youth Workers Union Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Community and Youth Workers Union
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie 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 Community and Youth Workers Union It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Community and Youth Workers Union
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Community and Youth Workers Union "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Community and Youth Workers Union
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Community and Youth Workers Union Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Community and Youth Workers Union
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Community and Youth Workers Union "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Community and Youth Workers Union
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) 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 It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler 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 There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Community and Youth Workers Union How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Community and Youth Workers Union
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Community and Youth Workers Union "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Community and Youth Workers Union
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Community and Youth Workers Union I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Community and Youth Workers Union
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Community and Youth Workers Union When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Community and Youth Workers Union
