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We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Education
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Education Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Education
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein 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 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Education Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil 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 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Education Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld 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 "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Education
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Education I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason 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 Education In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Education
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "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) Education 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 Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Education
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Education Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Education
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Education Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Education
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Education Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald What's new? Most of my wife. Education "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Education
