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"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Breeders You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Breeders
"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 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 Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Breeders Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Breeders
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Breeders Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Breeders
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Breeders You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Breeders
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Breeders "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Breeders
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Breeders Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "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) Breeders
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Breeders Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Breeders
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Breeders "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Breeders
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari May you never leave your marriage alive. Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol 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 Breeders The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Breeders
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Breeders The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi 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 Breeders
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Breeders My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Breeders
