If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Education A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Education
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Education You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Education
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Education When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Education
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Education
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Education When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Education
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Education A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Education Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Education
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "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 Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Education In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Education
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Education A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Education
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Education "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Education
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Education They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
