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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Education Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Education
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai 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 Education I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Education
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Education Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "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 "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Education
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Education My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Education The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Education
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 "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Education Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Education
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Education Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Education
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Education It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Education
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Education 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 "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Education
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 Education "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Education
"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 >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Education
