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I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Education "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Education
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Education "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) 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
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Education "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Education
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Education "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Education
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Education I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Education
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Education I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Education
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Education
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Education Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Education
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Education Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Education
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Education Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Education
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Education "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Education
