Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Localities A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Localities
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Localities The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Localities Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Localities
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Localities "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Localities
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams 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 "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Localities "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Localities
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Localities The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Localities
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce 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 Localities You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Localities
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Localities There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Localities
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Localities "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Localities
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Localities Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Localities
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Localities You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Localities
