"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Education "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Education
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Education Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Education
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "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 Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Education Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Education
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Education When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Education
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Education Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Education
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Education "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "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 Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Education
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Education Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) 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 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, Alice in Wonderland "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Education The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Education
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Education One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Education
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Education "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 Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Education
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Education Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Education
