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There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Education In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Education
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Education
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Education The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Education
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life 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 "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) 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 Education "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Education
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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 Education You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Education
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Education The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Education
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a rest period between romances. The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Education Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Education
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Education
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Education My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Education
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Education I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Education
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Education America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Education
