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"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters A Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous 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 "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) A
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, A The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) A
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen A There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green A
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 If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw A Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous A
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST 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 There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane A A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain A
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur A Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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
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 "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) A Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb A
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) A The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) A
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln A I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" A
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker A In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) A
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War A "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise A
