If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Achaea When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Achaea
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Achaea A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Achaea
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Achaea Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Achaea
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Achaea 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 An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Achaea
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Achaea "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Achaea
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Achaea "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Achaea
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Achaea Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Achaea
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Achaea No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Achaea
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Achaea "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Achaea
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "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) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Achaea I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Achaea
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Achaea "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Achaea
