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The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Property My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Property
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 Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba 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 I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Property "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Property
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Property Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Property
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 Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Property Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Property
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Property My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Property
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Property Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Property
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Property Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Property
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Property "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Property
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Property Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "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) Property
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Property 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 it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Property
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Property "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Property