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The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Education Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Education
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Education Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Education
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Education What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Education
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Education "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Education
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Education I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Education
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Education "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Education
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Education "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Education
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Education It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Education
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Education Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Education
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "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 Education Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness 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 "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Education
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday 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 Education Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Education
