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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop 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 Music Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Music
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Music To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Music
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Music I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Music
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Music He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Music
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Music "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Music
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Music If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Music
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "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) Music History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Music
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Music "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer 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.
Music
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Music Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Music
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Music Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell 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 He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Music
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Music 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 This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Music
