The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion 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 The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Schools Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Schools
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Schools Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Schools
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous 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 Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Schools Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Schools
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Schools 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 Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Schools
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Schools A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Schools
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Schools I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Schools
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Schools It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Schools
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Schools If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud 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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Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Schools Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Schools
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Schools If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Schools
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Schools Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Schools
