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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Education If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Education
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Education It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Education
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Education Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Education
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Education This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Education
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Education Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Education
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Education blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Education
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Education The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Education
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Education In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Education
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Education
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Education "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Education
