Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf 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 Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 D "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA D
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson D Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e D
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers D Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) D
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle D She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller D
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live D Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words D
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett D To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch D
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro D Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein D
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain D "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer 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 D
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg 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 Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James D "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler D
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 "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland D May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) D
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet D 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 The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos D
