"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Varberg Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Varberg
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Varberg A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Varberg
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 Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Varberg Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Varberg
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Varberg Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Varberg
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Varberg This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Varberg
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Varberg I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Varberg
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 Varberg Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Varberg
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Varberg The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Varberg
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Varberg "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Varberg
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Varberg The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Varberg
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Varberg The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Varberg
