I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Education The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Education "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Education
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Education A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Education
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Education Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Education
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Education Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Education
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Education "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Education
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Education I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Education Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) 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, Education
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Education "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Education
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Education In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Education
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Education The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position 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 I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Education
