Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "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 Special Needs Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Special Needs
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain 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.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Special Needs Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Special Needs In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Special Needs
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time 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 I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Special Needs "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Special Needs
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Special Needs I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Special Needs
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Special Needs Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Special Needs
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Special Needs "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Special Needs
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Special Needs The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Special Needs
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Special Needs Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Special Needs
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Special Needs The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Special Needs
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. 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 Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Special Needs He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Special Needs
