Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Employment Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Employment
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Employment The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Employment
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield 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 Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Employment Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) 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 Employment
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Employment "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Employment
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Employment To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Employment
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) May you never leave your marriage alive. Employment 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 If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Employment
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Employment "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Employment
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Employment It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Employment
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
[text_start]
"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Employment Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Employment
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Employment I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell 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 Employment
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken 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 Employment A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Employment
