"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) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Education I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager 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
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Education Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Education
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "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-) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Education "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Education
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Education Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Education The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Education
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Education If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Education
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Education
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "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 There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Education
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Education The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Education
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Education Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Education The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th 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." ( Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Education
