Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Education Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Education
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Education The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Education
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Education We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) 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 "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Education Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside 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 If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Education
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Education Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Education
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin 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 In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Education Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Education The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) 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 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 never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Education The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Education
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Education They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Education
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Education "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Education
