The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller High School I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) High School
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo High School What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu High School
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 "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) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie 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 is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 High School Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer High School
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison High School "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow High School
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot High School They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac High School
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly High School Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France High School
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) High School "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo High School
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. High School "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story High School
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. 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, High School "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson High School
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato High School People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. High School
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley High School "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl High School
