To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 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 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 Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Education "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Education
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Education Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting 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 That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Education
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w 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 "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Education Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Education
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Education If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) 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 Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Education In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Education
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Education If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) 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' Education
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Education
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) 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 Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Education If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Education
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Education
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Education Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Education
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Education Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Education
