A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Education Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Education
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Education Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
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To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald 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 Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Education In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Education
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Education It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Spinster: A bachelor's wife. 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 Education
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Education "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Education The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Education
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Education I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Education
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Education "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Education
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin 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 A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Education He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Education
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed 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 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 The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Education The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Education
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "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) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Education The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Education
