He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley 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 Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Education 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 I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Education
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Education The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Education Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Education
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Education The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "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 Education
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Education I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Education
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Education Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Education
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins 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 "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Education I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Education
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Education Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Education
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Education I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Education
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Education I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Education
