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There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Education We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Education
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Education Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Education
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Education Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Education
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Education If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Education
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Education I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Education
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost 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 "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Education "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Education
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Education "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Education
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Education "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Education
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is a rest period between romances. "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Education Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Education
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein 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 "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Education
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell 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 Education Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Education
