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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Education A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Education
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Education Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Education
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Education Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
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-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Education
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
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-- George Bernard Shaw A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Education Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
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-- H. L. Mencken I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Education I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
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-- Anonymous Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
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- Clarence Darrow, Education "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Education
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
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-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Education "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Education
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
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-- Jay Leno The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
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When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke Education Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Education
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
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-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Education The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
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A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
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don't know and It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
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-- John Murray ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Education "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and 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 If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Education
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert 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 MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
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gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Education There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Education
