Trivia

What would men be without women? Scarce, Sir, mighty scarce- Mark Twain

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher- Socrates

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury- Groucho Marx

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things- Jilly Cooper

I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back- Zsa Zsa Gabor

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living The world owes you nothing. It was here first- Mark Twain

My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery people would stop dying- Ed Furgol

Money can't buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery- Spike Milligan

I am opposed to millionaires but it would be dangerous to offer me the
position- Mark Twain

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life- Herbert Henry Asquith

A woman drove me to drink and I hadn't even the courtesy to thank her- W.C. Fields

Don't worry about avoiding temptation, as you grow older, it will avoid you- Winston Churchill

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty but everything else starts to wear out, fall out or spread out- Phyllis Diller

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go
anywhere- Billy Crystal

I once had a rose named after me, and I was very flattered. But, I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue, "No good in a bed, but fine against a wall- Eleanor Roosevelt

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves, finds the door open- Rabrindranath Tagore

Sometimes I find myself making love to my own misfortune- Norma Abrego

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never- Charles Colton

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense- Helen Rowland

If you judge people, you have no time to love them- Mother Teresa

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius- Mozart

Love teaches even asses to dance- French Proverb

Love your enemies. It really pisses them off- Unknown

To infinite, ever present Love, all is Love and there is no error, no sin sickness, nor death- Mary Baker Eddy

Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life and when a thought or resentment or hurt or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful- a thought that is love- Mary Morrissey

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known- Walt Disney

Never sign a valentine with your own name- Charles Dickens

All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt- Lucy Van Pelt

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl, no superior alternative has yet been found- Sir Winston Churchill

Platonic love is like an inactive volcano- Andre Pevost

If the universe has any purpose more important than topping a woman you love and making a baby with her hearty help, I have never heard of it- Rabert A. Henlein Lazarus Long

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it- Anatole France


What is said over the dead lion's body could not be said to him alive.
Great events may stem from words of no importance.
Being well dressed does not prevent one from being poor.
You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla.
A little subtleness is better than a lot of force.
A pretty basket does not prevent worries.
Man is like palm-wine: when young, sweet but without strength; in old age, strong but harsh.
When the bee comes to your house, let it have beer; you may want to visit the bee's house some day.
No matter how long the night, the day is sure to come.
He who is free of faults will never die.
If you tell people to live together, you tell them to quarrel.
When the moon is not full, the stars shine more brightly.
He, who hunts two rats, catches none.
If you burn a house, can you conceal the smoke?
He who is bitten by a snake fears a lizard.
By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.
The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.
If you do not step on the dog's tail, he will not bite you.
When the vine entwines your roof, it is time to cut it down.
Thought breaks the heart.
Knowledge is better than riches.
He, who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers
Rain does not fall on one roof alone.
The flood takes him in and the ebb takes him out.
What is inflated too much will burst into fragments.
Restless feet may walk into a snake pit.
To one who does not know, a small garden is a forest.

What is bad luck for one man is good luck for another.
He who cannot dance will say: "The drum is bad."
Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together.
No one tests the depth of a river with both feet
It is the fool's sheep that break loose twice.
When a man is coming toward you, you need not say: "Come here."
When a king has good counsellors, his reign is peaceful.
By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.
A single bracelet does not jingle.
The friends of our friends are our friends.
Wood may remain ten years in the water, but it will never become a crocodile.
Let him speak who has seen with his eyes.
Those who are absent are always wrong.
Rain beats a leopard's skin, but it does not wash out the spots.
Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight.
Only when you have crossed the river, can you say the crocodile has a lump on his snout.
If you are in hiding, don't light a fire.
One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.
Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.
The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people.
There is no medicine to cure hatred.
It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man.
It's a bad child who does not take advice.
When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him.