I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Treorchy Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Treorchy
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Treorchy "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Treorchy
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Treorchy "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Treorchy
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Treorchy 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 People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Treorchy
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Treorchy "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Treorchy
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Treorchy We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Treorchy
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Treorchy I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Treorchy
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Treorchy Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Treorchy
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy 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 Treorchy Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Treorchy
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Treorchy They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Treorchy
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Treorchy In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Treorchy
