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An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union 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 I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e 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 For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett 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 All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) 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 NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union "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." I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous 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 NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow NATFHE The University and College Lecturers' Union
