"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Woburn Sands 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 Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Woburn Sands
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Woburn Sands Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Woburn Sands
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana 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 "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Woburn Sands Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Woburn Sands
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Woburn Sands Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Woburn Sands
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Woburn Sands Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Woburn Sands
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy 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 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Woburn Sands For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Woburn Sands
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "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) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Woburn Sands "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Woburn Sands
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Woburn Sands To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Woburn Sands
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Woburn Sands The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Woburn Sands
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Woburn Sands The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Woburn Sands
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Woburn Sands Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Woburn Sands
