Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Education Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Education
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Education "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Education Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Education
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Education "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Education
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Education "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Education
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "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) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Education A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Education
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Education
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Education A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Education
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Education If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Education
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Education The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Education
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Education blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Education
