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The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Educational Exchanges It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Educational Exchanges
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Educational Exchanges We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Educational Exchanges
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Educational Exchanges To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Educational Exchanges
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Educational Exchanges Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Educational Exchanges
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Educational Exchanges We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Educational Exchanges
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "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 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci 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 Educational Exchanges Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Educational Exchanges
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Educational Exchanges Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Educational Exchanges
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Educational Exchanges Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Educational Exchanges
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Educational Exchanges Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Educational Exchanges
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Educational Exchanges He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Educational Exchanges
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Educational Exchanges When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Educational Exchanges
