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"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Education "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Education
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Education "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Education
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow 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 "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Education I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Education
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Education Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) 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 Education "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Education
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) 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 No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Education
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Education Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Education
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Education blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Education
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Education "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Education
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford 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 Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Education
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education "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 A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Education
