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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The Broads "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The Broads
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) The Broads The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The Broads
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations The Broads You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The Broads
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky The Broads It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) The Broads
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century The Broads To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The Broads
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) The Broads As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl The Broads
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The Broads The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student 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 The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position The Broads
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx The Broads You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin The Broads
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert The Broads When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "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 The Broads
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) The Broads Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 The Broads
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain The Broads A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt The Broads
