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I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "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) Aviation Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Aviation
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Aviation If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Aviation
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Aviation I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Aviation
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Aviation It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Aviation
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Aviation Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Aviation
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Aviation The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Aviation
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Aviation I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian 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 I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Aviation
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Aviation There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Aviation
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Aviation Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Aviation
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Aviation The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Aviation
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Aviation For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Aviation
