The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland News and Media The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "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) News and Media
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) News and Media I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. News and Media
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde News and Media "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous News and Media
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson 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 News and Media Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley News and Media
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson News and Media A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson News and Media
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner News and Media blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game News and Media
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per News and Media Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller News and Media
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo 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 "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) News and Media Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') News and Media
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 Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show News and Media The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings News and Media
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre 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 News and Media "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein News and Media
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers News and Media Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. News and Media
