The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler 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 "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Education Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Education Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Education
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Education The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz What's new? Most of my wife. Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Education
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Education One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Education
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett 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 real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Education "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 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 Education
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Education Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Education
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Education If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Education
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "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) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Education The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Education
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Education "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Education
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Education "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Education "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education
