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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Abroad "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Abroad
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Abroad The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Abroad
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 As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Abroad The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Abroad
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio 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 "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Abroad A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Abroad
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Abroad I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Abroad
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Abroad Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Abroad
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Abroad I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Abroad
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Abroad "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Abroad
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Abroad There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Abroad
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Abroad The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Abroad
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Abroad More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Abroad
