A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) 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 A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Education Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Education Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Education
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Education Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Education
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Education The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Education "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Education
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) 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 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Education Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Education
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Education I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Education
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Education I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Education
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Education We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Education
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Education "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Education
