Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Administrative Regions All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Administrative Regions
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 Marriage is a rest period between romances. In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Administrative Regions 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 Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "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) Administrative Regions
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Administrative Regions When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Administrative Regions
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Administrative Regions "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Administrative Regions
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Administrative Regions We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Administrative Regions
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Administrative Regions Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Administrative Regions
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Administrative Regions History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Administrative Regions
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner 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's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Administrative Regions A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Administrative Regions
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Administrative Regions To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Sřren Kierkegaard In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Administrative Regions
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Administrative Regions Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Administrative Regions
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Administrative Regions "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Administrative Regions
