If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Education If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Education
Man and wife make one fool. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Education "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) 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 Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Education
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Education There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Education
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Education All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer 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 In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Education
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Education For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Education The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Education
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Education "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Education
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Education We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Education
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Education "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Education
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) 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. Education Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Education
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Education If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Education
