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Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Education There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Education
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Education 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 If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Education
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Education People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Education
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Education
"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) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Education I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Education
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg 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 "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Education He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Education
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Education When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Education
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Education The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Education
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Education If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Education
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Education This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Education
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Education Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
