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Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Religion "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Religion
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Religion "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Religion
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Religion I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Religion
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates 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 Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Religion A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Religion
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Religion True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died 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 Religion
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) 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 Religion Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Religion
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Religion Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Religion
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Religion Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Religion
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Religion I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "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 "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Religion
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Religion There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Religion
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Religion "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Religion
