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"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Berat "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Berat
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Berat He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Berat
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Berat "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Berat "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Berat
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 Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Berat For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Berat
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Berat Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I 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 Berat
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Berat Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Berat
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Berat I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Berat
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Berat "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Berat
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Berat The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Berat
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Berat I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Berat
