I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Education He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Education
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Education All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Education
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Education Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Education
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Education Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. 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 The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Education Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "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) Education
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Education Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Education
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer 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." ( Education Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Education
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Education If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Education
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Education Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Education
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Education "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Education
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Education I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Education
