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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Education I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Education
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Education 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 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 "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Education
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Education
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Education There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Education
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Education What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Education
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Education The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Education Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Education
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Education It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck 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 He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Education
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Education "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Education
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Education This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Education
