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Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Education Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Education
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Education The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Education
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Education Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) 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 A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Education Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Education
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "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) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Education Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Education If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 Education
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Education Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 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) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry 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 Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Education "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) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Education
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous 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 "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Education The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus 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 A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Education
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Education Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Education
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Education Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Education
