Saturday, November 7, 2009
"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out w
"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.
Leaving on a jet plane
All my bags are packed
Im ready to go
Im standin here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin
Its early morn
The taxis waitin
Hes blowin his horn
Already Im so lonesome
I could die
So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that youll wait for me
Hold me like youll never let me go
Cause Im leavin on a jet plane
Dont know when Ill be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go
Theres so many times Ive let you down
So many times Ive played around
but I tell you now, they dont mean a thing
Every place I go, I think of you
Every song I sing, I sing for you
When I come back, Ill bring your wedding ring
So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that youll wait for me
Hold me like youll never let me go
Cause Im leavin on a jet plane
Dont know when Ill be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go
Now the time has come to leave you
One more time
Let me kiss you
And close your eyes and
Ill be on my way
Dream about the days to come
When I wont have to leave alone
About the times, That I wont have to say
Oh, kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that youll wait for me
Hold me like youll never let me go
Cause Im leavin on a jet plane
Dont know when Ill be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go
But, Im leavin on a jet plane
Dont know when Ill be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go
And I'm Leaving on a jet plane
Im ready to go
Im standin here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin
Its early morn
The taxis waitin
Hes blowin his horn
Already Im so lonesome
I could die
So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that youll wait for me
Hold me like youll never let me go
Cause Im leavin on a jet plane
Dont know when Ill be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go
Theres so many times Ive let you down
So many times Ive played around
but I tell you now, they dont mean a thing
Every place I go, I think of you
Every song I sing, I sing for you
When I come back, Ill bring your wedding ring
So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that youll wait for me
Hold me like youll never let me go
Cause Im leavin on a jet plane
Dont know when Ill be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go
Now the time has come to leave you
One more time
Let me kiss you
And close your eyes and
Ill be on my way
Dream about the days to come
When I wont have to leave alone
About the times, That I wont have to say
Oh, kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that youll wait for me
Hold me like youll never let me go
Cause Im leavin on a jet plane
Dont know when Ill be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go
But, Im leavin on a jet plane
Dont know when Ill be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go
And I'm Leaving on a jet plane
Favorite Quotations
If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
I like my whisky old and my women young.
Women are like elephants. Everyone likes to look at them but no-one likes to have to keep one.
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
From 40 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 15 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 40 feet away.
I love women. They’re the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that’s fine.
Women: Can’t live with them, can’t bury them in the back yard without the neighbours seeing.
To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
A woman’s mind is cleaner than a man’s – That’s because she changes it more often.
No man knows more about women than I do, and I know nothing.
I’d much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.
When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn’t she behave like a nice man ?
Despite my thirty years of research into the woman soul, I have not yet been able to answer the great question that has never been answered: What does a woman want?
Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: ‘This looks much better on.’ On what? On fire?
Women should have labels on their foreheads saying, ‘Government Health Warning: women can seriously damage your brains, current account, confidence, and good standing among your friends’.
The man’s desire is for the woman; but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
A woman knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.
Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.
A woman is like a tea bag. She only knows her strength when put in hot water.
Women are an alien race set down among us.
Women… can’t live with ‘em… can’t shoot ‘em.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good? Luckily, this is not difficult.
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
"Once you have loved someone, you'd do anything in the world for them... except love them again." - Anonymous
"Love is like war: Easy to begin but hard to end." - Anonymous
"Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion." - Mirabeau
"Three things can't be hidden: coughing, poverty, and love." - Yiddish proverb
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed." - Chamfort
From Moonstruck:
I.
Rose: Do you love him, Loretta?
Loretta Castorini: No.
Rose: Good. When you love them they drive you crazy because they know they can.
II.
Rose: Do you love him, Loretta?
Loretta Castorini: Aw, ma, I love him awful.
Rose: Oh, God, that's too bad.
"I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics." - Frank Zappa
"You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap." - Dolly Parton
"I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did." - Edgar Watson Howe
"I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's eighth husband on her wedding night: I know what I'm supposed to do...I just have to figure out a way to make it interesting." - many attributions
"No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying." - unknown
"An old man who marries a young wife grows younger - but she grows older." - folk saying
"It is not uncommon for slight acquaintances to get married, but a couple really have to know each other to get divorced." - Anonymous
"What female heart can despise gold?" - Thomas Gray
"A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'" - James Thurber
"I love being married. It's so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life." - Rita Rudner
"The people people have for friends
Your common sense appall
But the people people marry
Are the queerest folk of all."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." - Dorothy Parker
"Do not marry a man to reform him. That is what reform schools are for." - Mae West
"The body, she says, is subject to the forces of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure." - Saul Bellow
"It does not matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you do not do it in the street and frighten the horses." - Mrs. Patrick Campbell
"A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it." - Don Fraser
"If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?" - unknown
"There are three kinds of men who do not understand women: Young, old, and middle-aged." - Anonymous (and with good reason)
"Women like me because I make them laugh. And what is an orgasm, except laughter of the loins?" - Mickey Rooney
"There will be sex after death, we just won't be able to feel it." - Lily Tomlin
"A bride at her second wedding does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting." - Helen Rowland
"Don't threaten me with love, Baby. Let's just go walking in the rain." - Billie Holiday
"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania."
- Dorothy Parker
"Marriage is a fine institution - but I'm not ready for an institution." - Mae West
"My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there." - Carrie Fisher
"My wife and I have sex almost every day of the week," Milton Berle once said. "Yes, almost Monday, almost Tuesday, almost Wednesday."
"If you do kiss a politician, remember this: You are not only kissing him, you are kissing every butt that he has kissed in the last eight years." - Jay Leno
"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down." - Woody Allen, Love and Death
"To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We cannot really love anybody without whom we never laugh." - Alice Reppler
If a woman insists on being called Ms, ask her if it stands for miserable.
A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
There’s two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works.
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It’s the good girls men should be warned against.
Guys are like dogs. They keep coming back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time…they’re gone.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilt and I’ll show you a man.
I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
When women kiss it always reminds me of prize fighter shaking hands.
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she’ll tell anything.
“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”
Madonna
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage"
Anais Nin
“The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.”
D.H. Lawrence
"I hope people realise that there is a brain underneath the hair and a heart underneath the boobs."
Dolly Parton
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Plato
"I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle."
Marilyn Monroe
"I never go out unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door"
Joan Crawford
“Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object, the difference is that is not all she longs to be”
Betty Rollin
"There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so others won't be intimidated by you... as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
Nelson Mandela
"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." -Muhammad Ali
"When you look this good who cares if you're plastic?"
Amanda Lepore
"Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries."
Patty Duke
"Obsessed is a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated."
Flex Magazine
"Really successful people don't spend copious amounts of time in a speculative realm, trying to figure out what others are thinking, if others approve or disapprove of them, if others will respond to what they offer. They just do their thing."
Nicholas Flood
"Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself."
Charles Baudelaire
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war with reality"
Jules de Gaultier
"If love of beauty is to be postponed until all is right with the world, surely we should create only hell on earth."
Anthony Daniels
"The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.”
“A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.”
How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?”
I don't know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too."
I like my whisky old and my women young.
Women are like elephants. Everyone likes to look at them but no-one likes to have to keep one.
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
From 40 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 15 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 40 feet away.
I love women. They’re the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that’s fine.
Women: Can’t live with them, can’t bury them in the back yard without the neighbours seeing.
To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
A woman’s mind is cleaner than a man’s – That’s because she changes it more often.
No man knows more about women than I do, and I know nothing.
I’d much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.
When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn’t she behave like a nice man ?
Despite my thirty years of research into the woman soul, I have not yet been able to answer the great question that has never been answered: What does a woman want?
Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: ‘This looks much better on.’ On what? On fire?
Women should have labels on their foreheads saying, ‘Government Health Warning: women can seriously damage your brains, current account, confidence, and good standing among your friends’.
The man’s desire is for the woman; but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
A woman knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.
Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.
A woman is like a tea bag. She only knows her strength when put in hot water.
Women are an alien race set down among us.
Women… can’t live with ‘em… can’t shoot ‘em.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good? Luckily, this is not difficult.
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
"Once you have loved someone, you'd do anything in the world for them... except love them again." - Anonymous
"Love is like war: Easy to begin but hard to end." - Anonymous
"Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion." - Mirabeau
"Three things can't be hidden: coughing, poverty, and love." - Yiddish proverb
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed." - Chamfort
From Moonstruck:
I.
Rose: Do you love him, Loretta?
Loretta Castorini: No.
Rose: Good. When you love them they drive you crazy because they know they can.
II.
Rose: Do you love him, Loretta?
Loretta Castorini: Aw, ma, I love him awful.
Rose: Oh, God, that's too bad.
"I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics." - Frank Zappa
"You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap." - Dolly Parton
"I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did." - Edgar Watson Howe
"I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's eighth husband on her wedding night: I know what I'm supposed to do...I just have to figure out a way to make it interesting." - many attributions
"No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying." - unknown
"An old man who marries a young wife grows younger - but she grows older." - folk saying
"It is not uncommon for slight acquaintances to get married, but a couple really have to know each other to get divorced." - Anonymous
"What female heart can despise gold?" - Thomas Gray
"A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'" - James Thurber
"I love being married. It's so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life." - Rita Rudner
"The people people have for friends
Your common sense appall
But the people people marry
Are the queerest folk of all."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." - Dorothy Parker
"Do not marry a man to reform him. That is what reform schools are for." - Mae West
"The body, she says, is subject to the forces of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure." - Saul Bellow
"It does not matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you do not do it in the street and frighten the horses." - Mrs. Patrick Campbell
"A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it." - Don Fraser
"If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?" - unknown
"There are three kinds of men who do not understand women: Young, old, and middle-aged." - Anonymous (and with good reason)
"Women like me because I make them laugh. And what is an orgasm, except laughter of the loins?" - Mickey Rooney
"There will be sex after death, we just won't be able to feel it." - Lily Tomlin
"A bride at her second wedding does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting." - Helen Rowland
"Don't threaten me with love, Baby. Let's just go walking in the rain." - Billie Holiday
"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania."
- Dorothy Parker
"Marriage is a fine institution - but I'm not ready for an institution." - Mae West
"My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there." - Carrie Fisher
"My wife and I have sex almost every day of the week," Milton Berle once said. "Yes, almost Monday, almost Tuesday, almost Wednesday."
"If you do kiss a politician, remember this: You are not only kissing him, you are kissing every butt that he has kissed in the last eight years." - Jay Leno
"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down." - Woody Allen, Love and Death
"To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We cannot really love anybody without whom we never laugh." - Alice Reppler
If a woman insists on being called Ms, ask her if it stands for miserable.
A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
There’s two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works.
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It’s the good girls men should be warned against.
Guys are like dogs. They keep coming back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time…they’re gone.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilt and I’ll show you a man.
I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
When women kiss it always reminds me of prize fighter shaking hands.
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she’ll tell anything.
“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”
Madonna
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage"
Anais Nin
“The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.”
D.H. Lawrence
"I hope people realise that there is a brain underneath the hair and a heart underneath the boobs."
Dolly Parton
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Plato
"I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle."
Marilyn Monroe
"I never go out unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door"
Joan Crawford
“Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object, the difference is that is not all she longs to be”
Betty Rollin
"There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so others won't be intimidated by you... as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
Nelson Mandela
"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." -Muhammad Ali
"When you look this good who cares if you're plastic?"
Amanda Lepore
"Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries."
Patty Duke
"Obsessed is a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated."
Flex Magazine
"Really successful people don't spend copious amounts of time in a speculative realm, trying to figure out what others are thinking, if others approve or disapprove of them, if others will respond to what they offer. They just do their thing."
Nicholas Flood
"Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself."
Charles Baudelaire
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war with reality"
Jules de Gaultier
"If love of beauty is to be postponed until all is right with the world, surely we should create only hell on earth."
Anthony Daniels
"The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.”
“A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.”
How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?”
I don't know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too."
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