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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "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) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Secondary Schools 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 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Secondary Schools
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Secondary Schools "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Secondary Schools
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "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) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Secondary Schools Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Secondary Schools
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Secondary Schools It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Secondary Schools
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Secondary Schools I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Secondary Schools
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Secondary Schools "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Secondary Schools
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Secondary Schools "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Secondary Schools
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Secondary Schools Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Secondary Schools
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Secondary Schools In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Secondary Schools
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Secondary Schools The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Secondary Schools
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Secondary Schools If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Secondary Schools
