Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Property The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Property
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Property "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Property
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Property Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Property
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Property "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Property
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Property You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Property
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Property Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "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) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Property
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Property Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Property
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Property Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Property
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Property "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Property
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Property There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Property
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Property 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 A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland 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. Property
