An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Feniscowles Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Feniscowles
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Feniscowles All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Feniscowles
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Feniscowles "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Feniscowles
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Feniscowles "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Feniscowles
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ 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 "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Feniscowles If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Feniscowles
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Feniscowles Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Feniscowles
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Feniscowles "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Feniscowles
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Feniscowles We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Feniscowles
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) 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 Feniscowles University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Feniscowles
"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 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Feniscowles Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Feniscowles
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Feniscowles "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Feniscowles
