Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Education "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie 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
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf 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 These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Education
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Education Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Education
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 There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Education There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Education
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Education Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Education
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Education Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Education
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Education 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 Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Education Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Education
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Education I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Education
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Education "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Education Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Education
