Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. 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 There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Education Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) 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 Education
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Education We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Education
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Education Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Education
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Education
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 Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Education The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Education
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Education "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Education
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Education Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Education
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Education "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Education
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Education Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Education
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Marriage is a rest period between romances. A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Education
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Education Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Education
