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Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education "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') We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Education
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Education Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Education
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Education Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Education
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Education Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Education
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Education Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Education
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Education We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Education
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Education You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Education
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Education "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Education
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 The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Education Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Education
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Education I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Education
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Education your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Education
