The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "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) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Education In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Education
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Education My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Education
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Education Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Education
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "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-) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Education With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Education
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster 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 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
cocaine.
Education Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Education "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Education
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Education What's new? Most of my wife. If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Education
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Education "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Education
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Education "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Education
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Education Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Education
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Education "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Education
