The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Education "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Education
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Education Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi 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 "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Education A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Education
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Education Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu 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) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Education I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Education
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) 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 The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Education A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Education
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Education The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show 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 Education
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Education "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Education
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Education The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Education
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Education Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Education
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Education Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem 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 Education
