"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Poznan County Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Poznan County
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 "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Poznan County Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Poznan County
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Poznan County When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Poznan County
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Poznan County Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Poznan County
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Poznan County "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) 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 There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Poznan County The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Poznan County
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Poznan County The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Poznan County
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Poznan County Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Poznan County
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Poznan County Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Poznan County
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "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) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Poznan County Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Poznan County
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Poznan County Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Poznan County
