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I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Education Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Education
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Education "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Education
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White 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) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Education
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) 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 Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Education Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Education
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Education Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Education
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce 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 "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Education Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "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) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Education
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford 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 If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Education There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Education
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Education Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Education
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Education When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Education Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Education
