Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Resources for Educators My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Resources for Educators
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Resources for Educators There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Resources for Educators
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Resources for Educators 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 If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Resources for Educators
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Resources for Educators Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Resources for Educators
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Resources for Educators More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Resources for Educators
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Resources for Educators "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Resources for Educators
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 One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "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) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Resources for Educators Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Resources for Educators
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Resources for Educators I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Resources for Educators
>From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Resources for Educators The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Resources for Educators
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Resources for Educators Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Resources for Educators
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Resources for Educators Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Resources for Educators
