Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. 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 The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Education Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Education
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
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Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Education Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Education
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Education Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Education
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Education Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Education
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Education
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Education Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Education
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Education The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Education
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Education I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney 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 The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Education "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Education
