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Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Education We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "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 "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Education Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Education
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Education He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Education
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho 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 Education I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Education
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Education The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Education
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Education Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Education
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Education "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Education
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) 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 I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Education I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Education
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Education Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Education
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Education Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Education
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Education Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Education
