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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Education "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
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"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "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) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Education "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Education
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Education Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Education
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Education "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "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) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Education
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Education It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Education
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Education He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Education
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin 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 "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) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Education The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Education
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Education The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Education
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Education Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Education
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Education Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Education
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Education It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Education
