If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "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) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Education "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Education
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Education Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Education
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Education When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Education
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Education "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Education
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Education Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Education
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 I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Education I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Education
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Education Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Education
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Education
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Education "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Education
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Education "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Education
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Education The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Education
