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Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Education 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 "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) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Education
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Education A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Education
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Education The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Education
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "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 I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Education ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Education
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Education Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Education
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Education Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Education
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Education The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "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) Education
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Education They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Education
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Education The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Education
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Education "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Education
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Education Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
