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The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "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." The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer News and Media The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde News and Media
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) News and Media For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu News and Media
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday >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 "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich News and Media The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano News and Media
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin News and Media A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck News and Media
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers News and Media People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board News and Media
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves 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 News and Media Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell 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
sea Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau News and Media
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) 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 News and Media
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 Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) News and Media
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan News and Media "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov News and Media
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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 News and Media Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd News and Media
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) News and Media "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude News and Media
