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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education 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 To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Education
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Education "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Education
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Education I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Education
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 The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Education Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Education
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Education Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Education
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Education Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Education
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Education Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Education
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Education "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Education
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Education
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Education The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Education
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Education I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Education
