He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "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 Education No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Education
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Education But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "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) Education
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "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) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Education Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Education
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Education It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast 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 Education If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Education
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Education Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara 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 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Education No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Education
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Education There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Education
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Education Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Education
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Education Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Education
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Education If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis 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 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Education
