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"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Health You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Health
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Health "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Health
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Health Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Health
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Health "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Health
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Health If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Health
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy 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 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Health And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Health
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Health Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Health
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "... 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) Health LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Health
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) 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 Health
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Health Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Health
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Think off-center." (George Carlin) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Health 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 My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Health
