If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Education Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Education
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Education All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Education
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all 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) Education In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) 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) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Education Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Education
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Education Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Education
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Education When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Education
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Education Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington 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 "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Education My other wife is beautiful. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Education Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Education
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Education "'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, Through the Looking Glass) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France 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 Education
"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) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) 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 I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Education Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Education
