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Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 1798 Rebellion "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "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) 1798 Rebellion
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde 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 your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e 1798 Rebellion "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 1798 Rebellion
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man 1798 Rebellion Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 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 1798 Rebellion
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. 1798 Rebellion I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle 1798 Rebellion
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost 1798 Rebellion "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) 1798 Rebellion
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) 1798 Rebellion Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 1798 Rebellion
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g 1798 Rebellion Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic 1798 Rebellion
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers 1798 Rebellion If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') 1798 Rebellion
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash 1798 Rebellion All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo 1798 Rebellion
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! 1798 Rebellion Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill 1798 Rebellion
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen 1798 Rebellion Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman 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 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 1798 Rebellion
