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"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Filey It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Filey
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Filey Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Filey
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll 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 Filey Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Filey
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Filey For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Filey
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Filey Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Filey
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Filey I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Filey
"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Filey The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Filey
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Filey There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Filey
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Filey "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Filey
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Filey "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Filey An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Filey
