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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Education There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Education
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 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 "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Education I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Education
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Education NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Education
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Education
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Education He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Education
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Education Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Education
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Education "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "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) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Education
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Education "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Education
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Education Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Education
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Education "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Education "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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