No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Oise "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Oise
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Oise "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Oise
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Oise We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Oise
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' "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Oise I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "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 Oise
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Oise 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 Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Oise
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Oise Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Oise
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Oise He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Oise
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Oise A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Oise
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Oise Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Oise
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Marriage is a rest period between romances. Oise If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Oise
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz 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 Oise I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Oise
