In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Education
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Education If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Education
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Education Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Education
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "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, The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Education Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) 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 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 Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Education Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Education
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Education If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Education
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Education "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Education
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Education Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Education
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Education Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Education
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Education Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Education
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Education "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Education
