"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
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-- Damon Runyan In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Services There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
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-- Helen Roland Services
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Services Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
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-- John Wesley Services
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-- Mark Russell The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Services Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
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-- Tom Stoppard I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
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- Umberto Eco Services
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Services "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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-- Stephen Leacock To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Services Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
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-- Ralph Mars Services
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
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the ugl Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
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-- Thornton Wilder Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Services Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "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) Never eat more than you can lift.
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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Services 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 If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Services
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "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) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Services Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Services
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Services A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) 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) Services "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Services
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Services "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Services
