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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Education
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Education When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Education
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Education There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Education
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau 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 Education Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Education
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Education The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion 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, A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Education
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Education It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Education
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Education Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) 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
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Education Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Education
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Education 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 Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Education
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Education Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Education
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Education I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Education
