Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. 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 "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Education
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Education A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "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 Education
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Education It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Education
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "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 Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Education
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Education The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Education
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Education Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Education
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Education Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Education
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Education We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Education
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Education Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Education
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Education Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Education
