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- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) News and Media An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) News and Media
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr News and Media In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. 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 News and Media
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin News and Media "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun News and Media
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) News and Media 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 "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon News and Media
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. News and Media In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) News and Media
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance News and Media Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George News and Media
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac News and Media "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem News and Media
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham News and Media
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 Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel News and Media Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen News and Media
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce News and Media There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) News and Media
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) News and Media "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. News and Media
