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The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Education I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Education
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Education A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac 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 He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Education
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Education If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Education
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Education "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene 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 The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Education Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Education
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Education There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Education We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Education If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Education
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Education "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Education
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 Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen 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 Education See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Education
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Education I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education
