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For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone 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 Education A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Education
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 Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Education Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Education
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "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) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Education "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Education
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Education "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) 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 Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Education "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Education
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Education The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Education
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Education Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Education
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Education Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Education
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Education The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Education
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Education The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Education
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Education Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Education
