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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Puck "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Puck
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "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) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Puck "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Puck
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Puck "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Puck
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Puck There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Puck
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Puck Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Puck
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Puck May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Puck
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Puck I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Puck
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Puck 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? Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Puck
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Puck Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Puck
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "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) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Puck Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Puck
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Puck "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Puck
