Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung 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 To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Education Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Education
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Education My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Education
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Education People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Education Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous 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 When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Education A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Education
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Education Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Education
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Education If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Education
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Education I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb 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 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
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Education It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Education
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Education There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Education Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Education
