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Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Education My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings 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 Education "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Education
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Education "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Education The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Education
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Education Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Education
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Education The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Education
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Education To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Education
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Education If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Education
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, The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Education I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Education
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Education If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Education
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "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 "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Education History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Education
