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Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio 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 News and Media "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey News and Media "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) News and Media Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb News and Media
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous News and Media Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill News and Media
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler News and Media Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde News and Media
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) News and Media "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb News and Media
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co 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 Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore News and Media We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) News and Media
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington News and Media There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham News and Media
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
ha If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon News and Media We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from News and Media
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf News and Media Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard News and Media
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown News and Media "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon News and Media
