An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Education Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Education
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Education "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Education
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Education "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Education
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Education There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Education
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Education That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Education
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Education 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 I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Education
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Education Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Education
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Education "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Education
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Education Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Education
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs My other wife is beautiful. "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Education Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Education
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Education Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Education
