A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Education "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Education
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Education When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Education
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Education Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Education
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake 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 Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Education May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Education
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Education
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "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 Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Education blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Education
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Education Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Education
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Education If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer 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 "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Education
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Education "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 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 Education
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Education The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Marriage is a rest period between romances. Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Education
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Education Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) Education
