"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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.
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche New Quay The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken New Quay
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) New Quay 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 I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker New Quay
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes New Quay You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show New Quay
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) New Quay Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries 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 New Quay
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol 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, Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity New Quay Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 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 New Quay
"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 Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous New Quay There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard New Quay
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano New Quay Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. New Quay
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan New Quay Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. New Quay
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. New Quay "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and New Quay
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck New Quay There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken New Quay
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell New Quay Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) New Quay
