Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
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-- Victor Hugo You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Secondary Schools The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
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-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Secondary Schools
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Secondary Schools Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Secondary Schools
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Secondary Schools Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
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-- Peter Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Secondary Schools
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Secondary Schools "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
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We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz His ignorance is encyclopedic
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in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Secondary Schools
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Secondary Schools I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
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-- Phyllis Diller Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Secondary Schools
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Secondary Schools Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Secondary Schools
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Secondary Schools "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Secondary Schools
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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-- Anaïs Nin Secondary Schools They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Secondary Schools
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Secondary Schools "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Secondary Schools "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Secondary Schools
