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Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers 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 Education Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Education
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Education They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Education
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Education "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Education
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) 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 Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Education Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Education
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i 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 He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Education
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 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 "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Education For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Education
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow 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 In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Education Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Education
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Education
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Education As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Education
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Education There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Education
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Education We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Education
