Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through 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 "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Education "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Education
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Education The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Education He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Education
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Education A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Education
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Education People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Education
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Education Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Education
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at 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 I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Education For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "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 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 Education
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Education We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Education
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Education Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Education
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Education "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Education
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Education Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Education
