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If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Education A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Education
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Education Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Education
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Education "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Education
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Education The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Education
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Education Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Education
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Education Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Education
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Education Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Education
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Education The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Education
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer 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 Education I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Education
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Education Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Education
