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"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Education 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 The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Education
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Education Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor 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 Education
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Education I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Education
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Education
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Education Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas 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 "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Education
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Education The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Education
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Education Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Education
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Education I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner 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 Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Education Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Education
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt 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 Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Education The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Education
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Education The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Education
