Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell 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 Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Education
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Education There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Education Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Education
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Education What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Education
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 To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash 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 trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Education "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Education
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Education Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Education
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Education I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Education
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Education "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Education
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Education Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Education
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Education I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Education
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Education "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Education
