No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Education Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Education
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich 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 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 Education I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Education
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Education "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "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) Education
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Education "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) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Education
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "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 A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Education If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Education
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Education Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Education
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 "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Education When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Education
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Education The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Education
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Education A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry 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 Education
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Education Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Education
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Education How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Education
