I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Education Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Education
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Education "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Education
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Education
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Education Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Education "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Education
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Education The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Education
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 "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Education Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Education
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Education What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Education
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Education And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Education
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Education 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Education I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Education
