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Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Man and wife make one fool. Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Education Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Education
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Education "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) 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 Unha 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 What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Education "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Education
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Education No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Education
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Education If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Education
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Education
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Education "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Education
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Education Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Education
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Education No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) 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 Education
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Education What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Education
"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Education Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Education
