Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Health To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Health
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Health Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Health
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Health
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Health Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "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 A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Health
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Health Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Health
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Health Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Health Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) 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 Health
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Health Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Health
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Health Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Health
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Health "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Health
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Health When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Health
