A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach E One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) E
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie E Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 E
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time E Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche 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, E
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) E If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) E
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 After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) E If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) E
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) 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 If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince E "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) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu E
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln E Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) E
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker E Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries E
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) E The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "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) 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 E
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 E "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents E
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet E The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake E
