What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Primary Schools A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower 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 Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Primary Schools
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin My other wife is beautiful. If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Primary Schools "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Primary Schools
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Primary Schools The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Primary Schools
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Primary Schools Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Primary Schools
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) 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 Primary Schools blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Primary Schools
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Primary Schools In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
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Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman 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 I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. 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 A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Primary Schools Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Primary Schools
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Primary Schools "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Primary Schools
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Primary Schools Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Primary Schools
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Primary Schools Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Primary Schools
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Primary Schools One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Primary Schools
