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Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Barrow on Humber A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Barrow on Humber
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Barrow on Humber They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Barrow on Humber
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Barrow on Humber Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Barrow on Humber
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Barrow on Humber You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Barrow on Humber
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Barrow on Humber A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Barrow on Humber
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "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 "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Barrow on Humber Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Barrow on Humber
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "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 Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Barrow on Humber I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar 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 Barrow on Humber
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Barrow on Humber "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Barrow on Humber
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Barrow on Humber Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Barrow on Humber
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Barrow on Humber "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Barrow on Humber
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 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Barrow on Humber The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Barrow on Humber
