"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Education "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Education
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Education Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Education
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Education
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Education
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Education Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Education
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Education
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Education Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Education
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Education blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Education
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Education I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Education
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "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 Education Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Education
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Education The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Education
