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blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Education "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Education Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Education
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Education Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Education
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that 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 "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Education Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "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) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Education Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Education
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Education "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "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" blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Education
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Education Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Education
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Education Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford 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 Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Education
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 Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Education blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Education
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Education
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Education "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "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) Education
