I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
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-- Rich Little A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Web Rings Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Web Rings
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Web Rings "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Web Rings
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Web Rings My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Web Rings
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Web Rings I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Web Rings
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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' It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Web Rings An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Web Rings
What's new? Most of my wife. With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Web Rings "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 For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Web Rings
"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 "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Web Rings If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Web Rings
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Web Rings "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Web Rings
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Web Rings That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Web Rings
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Web Rings "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Web Rings
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Web Rings "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Web Rings
