Marriage is the death of hope. Woody Allen It is impossible to love and be wise. Francis Bacon What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. Pearl Bailey Reject hatred without hating. Mary Baker Eddy What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. Roland Barthes Helpmate: A wife, or bitter half. Ambrose Bierce It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. Anton Chekhov Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. Anthony J. D'Angelo Math is like love - a simple idea but it can get complicated. R. Drabek A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson All mankind loves a lover. Ralph Waldo Emerson I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house. Zsa Zsa Gabor Women make love for love, men make love for lust. Derrick Harge Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Thomas Haynes Bayly Love and a cough cannot be hidden. George Herbert Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. John Heywood Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Eric Hoffer Burning desire is the eternal flame. Doug Horton Love is a given, hatred is aquired. Doug Horton Money is good, love is wealth. Doug Horton No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys. Doug Horton Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late. Douglas Jerrold Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself. Dorothy Law Nolte When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution. D. H. Lawrence Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another. Henry Louis Mencken My husband gave me a permanent wave, and now he's gone. Dawn Messer The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. Blaise Pascal There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved. George Sand Truth is fiction when spilled from the lips of a man. Lisa Tillotson If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? Lily Tomlin Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. Voltaire Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? Mae West Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. Mae West Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. Oscar Wilde People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. Douglas Yates A man needs a mistress, just to break the monogamy. Before you find your handsome prince, you have to kiss a lot of frogs. Contention is better than loneliness. Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life. Hearts are often broken when words are unspoken. Her kisses left something to be desired - the rest of her. I'd like to meet the man who invented sex and see what he's working on now. If there is anything better than being loved, it's loving. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Love will make you forget time, and time will make you forget love. Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence. One does not make friends, one recognizes them. She's the kind of woman you could fall madly in bed with. The surest sign that a man is in love is when he divorces his wife. There are two sides to every divorce: yours and the shithead's. All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. Aristotle The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. Richard Bach Most plans are just inaccurate predictions. Ben Bayol It gets late early out there. Yogi Berra Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. Ashleigh Brilliant He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. Confucius If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass Efficiency is intelligent laziness. David Dunham Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. Scott Elledge The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness. Havelock Ellis The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. Ralph Waldo Emerson My work is a game - a very serious game. M. C. Escher You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. Henry Ford Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin Most problems are either unimportant or impossible to solve. Victor Galaz We will burn that bridge when we come to it. Nick Gorski If one has not given everything, one has given nothing. Georges Guynemer No vacation goes unpunished. Karl A. Hakkarainen Never mistake motion for action. Ernest Hemingway It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion. Frank Herbert Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. Oliver Herford Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. Jane Hopkins In labouring to be brief, I become obscure. Horace If food were free, why work? Doug Horton I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. Thomas Jefferson What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Samuel Johnson The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. Henry Kissinger A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao Tsu Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. Charlie McCarthy Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. Wilson Mizner Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available. A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood. George Patton You will break the bow if you keep it always stretched. Phaedrus Give me a museum and I'll fill it. Pablo Picasso Necessity is the mother of invention. Plato The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato Consistency is the final refuge of the unimaginative. Ray Prince I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now. Ray Prince People who work sitting down are paid more than people who work standing up. Ray Prince Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else. Ray Prince Man is only happy as he finds a work worth doing, and does it well. E. Merrill Root Don't remember what you can infer. Harry Tennant Men have become the tools of their tools. Henry David Thoreau It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Mark Twain I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise. Vangelis Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of. Geri Weitzman Work is the curse of the drinking classes. Oscar Wilde Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. H. H. Williams Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. Stephen Wright It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it. Steven Wright A hospital is no place to be sick. Samuel Goldwyn When dealing with the insane, it is best to pretend to be sane. Herman Hesse Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world. Sanity is the playground for the unimaginative. All these nervous breakdowns are driving me crazy. Lee Hawkins The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. Katherine Cebrian I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me. Winston Churchill Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach. Confucius Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. Ovid There is no sincerer love than the love of food. George Bernard Shaw Wine is bottled poetry. Robert Louis Stevenson If it weren't for caffeine I'd have no personality whatsoever. Friendships develop over food and wine. Prince Nicholas Romanoff If I didn't have a problem with alcohol, I'd drink all the time. Havelock Ellis We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. Aesop Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commision. Fred Allen Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. Woody Allen You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark. Wallace Arnold The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. Richard Bach Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion. Francis Bacon Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young. Russell Banks Most plans are just inaccurate predictions. Ben Bayol Spel chekers, hoo neeeds em? Alan James Bean 99% of the game is half mental. Yogi Berra It's not over until it's over. Yogi Berra Misfortune: The kind of fortune that never misses. Ambrose Bierce A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. Arthur Block A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness. Daniel Boorstin He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit. Ernest Bramah I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution. Werner von Braun Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. Werner von Braun Why be a man when you can be a success? Bertolt Brecht All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power. Ashleigh Brilliant I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem. Ashleigh Brilliant Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down. Ashleigh Brilliant I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep going forward. Charlotte Bronte Brooks' Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. Arthur Calwell Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. Albert Camus If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning. Damien Cannon No pressure, no diamonds. Mary Case Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others. Winston Churchill Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it. Winston Churchill Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. Joe Clark Intelligence is nothing without delight. Paul Claudel Every man is the architect of his own fortune. Appius Claudius You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. Edwin Louis Cole Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. Robert Collier No one really knows enough to be a pessimist. Norman Cousins If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. Quentin Crisp "It can't happen here" is number 1 on the list of famous last words. David Crosby Become addicted to constant and neverending self-improvement. Anthony J. D'Angelo Don't fear change - embrace it. Anthony J. D'Angelo Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. Bette Davis Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming Hard reality has a way of cramping your style. Daniel Dennett It's kinda fun to do the impossible. Walt Disney He who hesitates is probably smart... or maybe stapled to the floor. Dr. Squid There's no success like failure, And failure's no success at all. Bob Dylan The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Albert Einstein When I discover who I am, I'll be free. Ralph Ellison Hitch your wagon to a star. Ralph Waldo Emerson No man can get through me but through my act. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. Ralph Waldo Emerson Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck. Marian Erickson If you're strong enough, there are no precedents. F. Scott Fitzgerald Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Henry Ford Whether you think that you can or that you can't, you are usually right. Henry Ford Art is either plagiarism or revolution. Paul Gauguin Be braver - you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. David Lloyd George If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. J. Paul Getty Things don't go wrong, they simply happen. Jacob Ghitis Only the mediocre are always at their best. Jean Giraudoux When ideas fail, words come in very handy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We will burn that bridge when we come to it. Nick Gorski You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. Sacha Guitry No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one. Nathaniel Hawthorne We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. Aesop The gods too are fond of a joke. Aristotle Harmony seldom makes a headline. Silas Bent Happiness is good health and a bad memory. Ingrid Bergman Comedy is tragedy plus time. Carol Burnett All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Lord Byron Be happy. It is a way of being wise. Colette Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson There is more to life than increasing its speed. Mahatma Gandhi If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive. Samuel Goldwyn He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower. Mary Howitt If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. Elbert Hubbard Life is short. Live it up. Nikita Khrushchev Joy is not in things, it is in us. Jess Lair Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. Oscar Levant Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so. John Stuart Mill The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. Blaise Pascal No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt Man is only happy as he finds a work worth doing, and does it well. E. Merrill Root I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. Carl Sandburg A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. Arthur Schopenhauer Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation. George Bernard Shaw Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. Henry David Thoreau A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. Mark Twain Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. Peter Ustinov I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. Joe Walsh For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know. Here's to your love, health, and wealth - and time to enjoy each. If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are. Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing. Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die. Dennis Trudell What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. Jean Paul Richter Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due. Dean Inge So go for the jump, and chase all your dreams. Mark van Essen Don't do whatever you like -- like whatever you do. Life is ours to be spent, not saved. D. H. Lawrence Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves. William Shakespeare Living well is the best revenge. George Herbert Be good and you will be lonesome. Mark Twain Misery is optional. S. Gilmary Beagle Even the the most tempting rose has thorns. Tristan Eggener Everyone smiles in the same language. Learn from the past. Look to the future. Live in the present. Steve Henthorn If we couldn't laugh, we'd all go insane. Jimmy Buffett Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man. Joseph Addison It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better. Laurie Anderson The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. Aristotle Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. Isaac Asimov Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. Ambrose Bierce He whose face gives no light shall never become a star. William Blake I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others. John Brown Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have. Marva Collins And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. John Dryden It is always brave to say what everyone thinks. Georges Duhamel Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin. Anatole France An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. Mahatma Gandhi Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to. Arnold H. Glasgow Yield to temptation - it may not pass your way again. Robert A. Heinlein Humility is the first of the virtues -- for other people. Oliver Wendell Holmes Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint. Doug Horton Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain. Doug Horton There is no bad in good. Doug Horton I want what I want when I want it! Roy Horton A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares. Elbert Hubbard The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture. Elbert Hubbard Drugs are reality's legal loopholes. Jeremy Preston Johnson Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. Garrison Keillor No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting. Murray Kempton Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. John F. Kennedy A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. Rudyard Kipling Life is like walking through snow: every step shows. Jess Lair A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. Doug Larson If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? Abraham Lincoln You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. Dean Martin I drink to make other people interesting. George Jean Nathan Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. Friedrich Nietzsche That woman speaks eight languages and can't say "no" in any of them. Dorothy Parker To err is human, to forgive divine. Alexander Pope I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. Jules Renard A man wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package. John Ruskin Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. Saint Augustine Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. William Saroyan No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. Charles Schulz He who is sorry for having sinned is almost innocent. Seneca George Bernard Shaw {Also in: Altruism and Cynicism} It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. George Bernard Shaw Virtue is insufficient temptation. George Bernard Shaw They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts. Philip Sidney Everything in moderation - including moderation. Harvey Steiman Goodness is the only investment that never fails. Henry David Thoreau Always do right -- this will gratify some and astonish the rest. Mark Twain Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said. Mark Twain If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. Mark Twain Let us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry. Mark Twain I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. Gore Vidal Some people are sympathetic; others are just pathetic. Peter Wastholm Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. Evelyn Waugh