"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Government I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Government
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Government 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 We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Government
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Government "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Government
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Government They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Government
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken My other wife is beautiful. I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Government Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Government
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Government 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 I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Government
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Government Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Government
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Government Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Government
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Government My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Government
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Government 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 A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Government
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) 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 Government
