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Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Education I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Education
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Education It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Education
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Education Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Education
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Education Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Education
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Education If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Education I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Education
"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 Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "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) Education Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Education
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Education "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Education
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Education
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Education Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Education Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education
