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English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous 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 "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Colleges and Universities "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 "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Colleges and Universities
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Colleges and Universities "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Colleges and Universities
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Colleges and Universities People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Colleges and Universities
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Colleges and Universities Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Colleges and Universities
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Colleges and Universities When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Colleges and Universities
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Colleges and Universities We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "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, ignorance, g Colleges and Universities
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Colleges and Universities The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Colleges and Universities
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Colleges and Universities "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Colleges and Universities
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "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 "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Colleges and Universities Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Colleges and Universities
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Colleges and Universities All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Colleges and Universities
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Colleges and Universities We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Colleges and Universities
