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-- William James Schools
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Schools There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
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-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
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-- Jean Ke Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Schools "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
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-- Bill Moyers Schools
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Schools If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Schools
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
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--Malcolm X Schools Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
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-- Anonymous Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Schools
"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 "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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-- Fr. Jerome Cummings A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Schools
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
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-- Friedrich Nietzsch Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Schools
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feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
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- Irvin S. Cobb Schools
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
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time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Schools
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Schools To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
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