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"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Education Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Education
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Education It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Education Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Education
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Education Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Education
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Education There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Education It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Education
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Education Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Education
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Education He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Education
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "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' He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Education Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Education
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Education Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Education
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Education This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
