Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "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 Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Education Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Education
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) 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 Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
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 Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt 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 Education Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Education
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Education "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Education
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Education "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Education
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Education All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Education
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Education Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Education
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Education A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Education
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Education The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Education
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald 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 Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Education To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Education
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Education For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Education
