If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Education Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Education
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Education History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Education
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Education There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Education
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Education Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Education
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 "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Education There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Education
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Education Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Education
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "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 Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Education When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Education
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Education War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Education
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Education "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Education
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Education It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Education
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Education "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Education
