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For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Education 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 We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Education
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Education The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Education
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed 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 Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Education Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Education
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Education How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Education
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that 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 "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Education When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Education
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Education Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Education
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Education Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Education
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Education Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton 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 Education
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa 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 Education Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Education
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Education In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Education
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Education
