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You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Teachers and Performers Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Teachers and Performers
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Teachers and Performers He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Teachers and Performers
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken 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 Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Teachers and Performers "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Teachers and Performers
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Teachers and Performers Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Teachers and Performers
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Teachers and Performers Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Teachers and Performers
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Teachers and Performers Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Teachers and Performers
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Teachers and Performers I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Teachers and Performers
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "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) Teachers and Performers "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Teachers and Performers
"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 Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Teachers and Performers I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Teachers and Performers
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Teachers and Performers To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Teachers and Performers
"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) "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 unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) 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 Teachers and Performers The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Teachers and Performers
