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"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Professional Resources I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Professional Resources
"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) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Professional Resources English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs 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 Professional Resources
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker 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 Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Professional Resources In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Professional Resources
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Professional Resources "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Professional Resources
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx 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) Professional Resources I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Professional Resources
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Professional Resources The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Professional Resources
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Professional Resources "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Professional Resources
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Professional Resources It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Professional Resources
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Professional Resources "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Professional Resources
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Professional Resources "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Professional Resources
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Professional Resources Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Professional Resources
