Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "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) Education Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Education
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Education In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Education
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Education Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Education
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Education "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Education
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Education Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Education
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Education In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Education
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 figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Education "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) 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 I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Education
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Education Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Education
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Education Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Education
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Education Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Education
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Education The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
