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 All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Education The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Education
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Education "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Education
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Education "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Education
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Education "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Education
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous 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 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Education Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Education
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron 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 "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Education Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Education
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Education There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Education
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Education If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Education
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Education Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Education
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Education "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Education
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Education Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Education
