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Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Education One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Education
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Education "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Education
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Education Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Education
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Education Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Education
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "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) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Education Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Education
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Education "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Education
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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. Education If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Education
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Education In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Education
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Education "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Education Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Education
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Education "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) 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 Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Education
