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 Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Lower and Upper Level Comprehensive blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Lower and Upper Level Comprehensive
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lower and Upper Level Comprehensive They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Lower and Upper Level Comprehensive
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Lower and Upper Level Comprehensive Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Lower and Upper Level Comprehensive
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Lower and Upper Level Comprehensive He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Lower and Upper Level Comprehensive
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Lower and Upper Level Comprehensive Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Lower and Upper Level Comprehensive
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Lower and Upper Level Comprehensive Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Lower and Upper Level Comprehensive
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lower and Upper Level Comprehensive Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Lower and Upper Level Comprehensive
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) 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 "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Lower and Upper Level Comprehensive Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley 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 Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Lower and Upper Level Comprehensive
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Lower and Upper Level Comprehensive I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Lower and Upper Level Comprehensive blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Lower and Upper Level Comprehensive
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Lower and Upper Level Comprehensive We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Lower and Upper Level Comprehensive
