I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Larvik The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Larvik
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Larvik "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) 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 You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Larvik
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Larvik Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Larvik
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Larvik ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Larvik
blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Larvik Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Larvik
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Larvik I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Larvik
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Larvik Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Larvik
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Larvik I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Larvik
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Larvik Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Larvik
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Larvik Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Larvik
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Larvik I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Larvik
