What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Education Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Education
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Education "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Education Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Education
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Education "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Education
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart 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 Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Education 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 Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Education "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James 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 Education
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Education
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries 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 See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard 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 "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Education Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Education
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Education "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Education
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Education My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Education
