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Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Education blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Education
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "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) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Education "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Education The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Education
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education 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 Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Education
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Education "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Education
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Education Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Education
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Education He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Education Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Education
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "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 "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Education
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Education Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Education
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Education "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) 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
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