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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Education We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Education We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "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 Education
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "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." See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Education The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Education
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Education You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Education
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Education Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Education
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing 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 Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Education Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Education
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Education My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Education
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Education You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Education
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Education We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Education
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Education The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Education
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Education In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Education
