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"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Education Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Education I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Education
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Education When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Education
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Education Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Education
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "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 There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Education I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) 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
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what 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 Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Education A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Education
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Education When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Education
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 The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Education "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Education
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Education You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Education Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) 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 Education
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Education Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Education
