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I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "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) Independent Schools "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Independent Schools
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Independent Schools I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Independent Schools
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Independent Schools Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Independent Schools
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Independent Schools If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French 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 What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Independent Schools
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Independent Schools Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Independent Schools
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Independent Schools "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Independent Schools
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Independent Schools Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Independent Schools
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Independent Schools Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Independent Schools
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Independent Schools Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
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Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Independent Schools UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Independent Schools
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Independent Schools People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Independent Schools
