My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Private Schools and Colleges Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Private Schools and Colleges
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Private Schools and Colleges A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Private Schools and Colleges
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Private Schools and Colleges If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Private Schools and Colleges
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Private Schools and Colleges The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley 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 One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
[text_end]
[text_start]
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Private Schools and Colleges
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Private Schools and Colleges Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Private Schools and Colleges
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Private Schools and Colleges 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 who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Private Schools and Colleges
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Private Schools and Colleges If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "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 "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Private Schools and Colleges
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Private Schools and Colleges Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Private Schools and Colleges
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Private Schools and Colleges 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 I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Private Schools and Colleges
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Private Schools and Colleges The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Private Schools and Colleges
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Private Schools and Colleges America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Private Schools and Colleges
