Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky 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 When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Education A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Education
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Education "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Education
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Education "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Education
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Education Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Education
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Education Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Education
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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." Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Education Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Education
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner 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 "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Education "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Education
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from 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 Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Education If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Education
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William 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 Education "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Education
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) 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. It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Education A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Education
