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I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Arts and Entertainment A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Arts and Entertainment Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason 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 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
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If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Arts and Entertainment Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Arts and Entertainment
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous 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 Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Arts and Entertainment "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Arts and Entertainment
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Arts and Entertainment The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Arts and Entertainment
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Arts and Entertainment 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 Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Arts and Entertainment
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Arts and Entertainment Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Arts and Entertainment The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Arts and Entertainment "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Arts and Entertainment
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Arts and Entertainment Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "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 Arts and Entertainment
