Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Schools "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Schools
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Schools They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal 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 I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Schools
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Schools "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Schools
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz 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. 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 are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Schools Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Schools
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Schools "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Schools
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Schools Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle 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 Schools
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Schools We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Schools
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Schools I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Schools
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Schools If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Schools
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Schools We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Schools
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Schools "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Schools
