"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Education Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Education
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Education "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Education
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Education The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Education
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Spinster: A bachelor's wife. A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Education We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Education
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Education Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Education
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Education The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Education Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Education
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Education Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Education
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) 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 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Education
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Education In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Education
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Education Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Education
