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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Arts and Entertainment Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Arts and Entertainment
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Arts and Entertainment Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. 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 Arts and Entertainment
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Arts and Entertainment
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Arts and Entertainment The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Arts and Entertainment
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Arts and Entertainment "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 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Arts and Entertainment
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 Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. 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
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Arts and Entertainment By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Arts and Entertainment
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Arts and Entertainment One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Arts and Entertainment
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Arts and Entertainment 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 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) My other wife is beautiful. Arts and Entertainment
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Arts and Entertainment If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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