Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Directories If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Directories
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Directories then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Directories
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Directories We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Directories
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Directories Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Directories
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Directories The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Directories
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) 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 If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Directories He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Directories
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Directories "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Directories
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Directories It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "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 great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Directories
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Directories Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Directories
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Directories There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Directories
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Directories I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Directories
