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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Education Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday 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 The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Education
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Education It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Education
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Education Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Education
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Education An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Education
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Education You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Education
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Education "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Education
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Education "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Education
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Education You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Education
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) 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 Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh 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 The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Education Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Education
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Education Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Education
