I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Schools A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Schools
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Schools We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Schools
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Schools Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Schools
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Schools If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Schools
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Schools A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff 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 Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Schools
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Schools "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Schools
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Schools When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Schools
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Schools If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Schools
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Schools "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Schools
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Schools It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Schools
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Schools "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Schools
