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Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Education It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Education
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Education "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) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Education
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Education "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Education
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Education Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Education
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac 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 Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Education "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Education
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) 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 Education Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Education
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Education "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Education
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Education We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Education
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Education 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 And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Education
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain 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 "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Education 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 blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Education
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Education We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
