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In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Seniors Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Seniors
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 Unha "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Seniors The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Seniors
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Seniors If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Seniors
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Seniors Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Seniors
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Seniors Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Seniors
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Seniors All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Seniors
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "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) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Seniors Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Seniors
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Seniors I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Seniors
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Seniors Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Seniors
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Seniors I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Seniors
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 "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) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Seniors When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Seniors
