"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Education The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Education
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Education It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Education
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Education He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Education
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Education An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Education
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Education To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Education
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Education Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Education
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Education 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,
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "'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) Education
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Education
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Education In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Education
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Education "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Education
