We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Education "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Education
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Education Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Education
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Education "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "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) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Education
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Education
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Education I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Education
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. 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 Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Education I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Education
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Education Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Education
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) 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. Education Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Education Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins 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.
-- Anonymous Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Education Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Education
