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Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Education Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Education Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Education
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Education Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Education
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "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) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Education The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Education
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All 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 "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Education Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Education
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Education "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Education
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Education If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Education
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (Franois VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Education Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Education
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Education I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Education
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Education In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- Franois de La Rouchefoucauld Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Education
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Education "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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