Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Business and Economy I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Business and Economy
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Business and Economy Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Business and Economy
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Business and Economy
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Business and Economy "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Business and Economy
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Business and Economy Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "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) Business and Economy
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Business and Economy University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Business and Economy
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Business and Economy Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Business and Economy "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Business and Economy
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Business and Economy Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Business and Economy
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "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) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Business and Economy Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Business and Economy
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Business and Economy Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy
