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Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Education Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Education
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Education Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Education
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Education The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero 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 Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Education I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Education
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Education The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Education
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Education "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Education
"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) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Education A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Education
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Education You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Education
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Education If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "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) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Education
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Education The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Education
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) 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 Education Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Education
