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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Education "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Education
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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) Education A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Education
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Education There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Education Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Education
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Education Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Education
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "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) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Education Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Education
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "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 Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Education "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Education
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Education ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Education
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Education No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours 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
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Education The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Education
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Education It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Education
