The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Education And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Education
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Education If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Education
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 Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Education The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Education
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Education "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Education
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Education "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Education
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 Unha Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Education
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Education You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Education
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Education The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Education
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant 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 As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Education "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Education Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Education
