No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Education I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Education Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 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 He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Education By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, 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
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 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 I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Education
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Education Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Education
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Education When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley 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
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 When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Education "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Education
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Education Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Education
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Education Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Education
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Education I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Education
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Education "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Education
