May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity 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 The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Education Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Education The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Education
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Education
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Education The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Education
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Education I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Education
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Education 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. Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Education
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Education "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) 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, "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Education "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Education
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Education Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Education
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Education God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur 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
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Education In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
