Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch 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 We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along 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 Education The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Education "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Education
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Education
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) 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 Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Education Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Education
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Education Marriage is a rest period between romances. People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Education
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Education To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Education
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Education Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Education
"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) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Education All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Education
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Education Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "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' Education
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "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) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "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) Education "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Education
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Education
