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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) 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 Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Classical We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Classical
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Classical Marriage is a rest period between romances. Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Classical
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Classical My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Classical
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Classical Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Classical
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Classical He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Classical
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Classical Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Classical
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Classical All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Classical
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Classical We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Classical
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Classical People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Classical
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Classical Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Classical
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Classical The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Classical
