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One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Education Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Education
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "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) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Education "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale 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 Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Education
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Education Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "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) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller 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 blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Education Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Education
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Education Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Education
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Education As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Education
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Education There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education
"'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, Through the Looking Glass) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Education A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Education
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Education Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Education Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Education
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Education The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Education