Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte B "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost B
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Marriage is a rest period between romances. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson B There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) B
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic B Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo B
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra B "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning B
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud B A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) B
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin B Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) B
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "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) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein B The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. B
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford B My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford B
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson B "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) B
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson B 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 B
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer B It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) B
