To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Education Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Education
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. 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 While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Education "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Education
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Education The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Education
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Education "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin My other wife is beautiful. Education
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "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) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Education If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Education
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Education Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Education
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Education It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 Education
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Education It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Education
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Education Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Education
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Education A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Education
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Education For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
