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"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins K You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous K
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of K "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem K
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe K Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf K
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) K Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) K
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. K A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) K
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe K Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki K
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) K "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title K
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) 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 The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire K He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? K
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge K I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian 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 Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. K
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz K I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) K
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge K Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) K
