"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) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Home Schooling "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Home Schooling
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Home Schooling I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Home Schooling
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Home Schooling All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Home Schooling
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Home Schooling Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Home Schooling
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Home Schooling There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Home Schooling
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Home Schooling Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Home Schooling
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Home Schooling Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Home Schooling
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Home Schooling You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Home Schooling
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Home Schooling That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Home Schooling
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl 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 Home Schooling Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Home Schooling
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Home Schooling Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Home Schooling
