Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 English Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully English
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t English 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 If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken English
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package English "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. English
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student English Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) English
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) English When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. English
"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) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson English It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden English
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) English Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) English
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer English I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells English
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge English Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) English
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari English In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie 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 English
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton English Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke English
