Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Education Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Education In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Education
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Education Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Education
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "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) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Education Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Education
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Education "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Education
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 "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Education Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Education
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Education Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Education
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Education I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Education
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Education 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 By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Education
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Education Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) 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 "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) 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 Education They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Education
