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I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Education You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns 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 Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Education If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Education
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) 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. Education If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Education
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Education Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Education
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Education
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Education For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Education
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Education "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Education
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Education Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Education Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Education
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Education Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Education
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Education There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
