To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Education "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Education
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye 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 "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Education Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Education
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Education I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Education
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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 A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Education 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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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "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) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Education
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Education Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "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) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Education
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Education The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Education
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 Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Education Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Education
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Education Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Education
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Education Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Education
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Education "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Education 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 I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Education
