Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Education Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Education
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "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 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Education "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Education Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Education
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Education We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "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
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Education We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Education
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Education Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "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 "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Education Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Education
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Education It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Education
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Education
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Education Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) My other wife is beautiful. "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Education 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 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Education
