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"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Education Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal 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 Education
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Education The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Education
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Education I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Education My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Education
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "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) Education I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Education
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Education "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Education
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Education In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Education
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Education "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Education
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Education My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Education
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Education Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Education
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Education
