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 I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Education A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "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) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Education Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Education
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Education "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Education
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Education He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education
"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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Education
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Education My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Education
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Education The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Education
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Education I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Education
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Education
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. 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 Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Education The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
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