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All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Education Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Education
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Education "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Education
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Education "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Education
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Education I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Education
Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Education Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Education
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Education blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Education
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Education Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Education Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Education
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Education "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Education
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Education Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Education
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Education Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Education
