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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea 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 Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Education I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Education
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Education I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Education
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Education 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. 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 blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Education
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Education "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) 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 Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "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 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Education
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Education 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Education You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Education
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "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) Education Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Education
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Education "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Education
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Education When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Education
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous 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 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Education Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Education
