The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Education Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Education
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Education Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Education
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Education You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Education
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Education When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Education
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Education Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Education
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Education Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Education
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Education Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Education
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Education "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Education
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "'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) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Education "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Education
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Education Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Education
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Education He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Education
