It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Education "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Education
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Education We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Education
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Education You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "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) Education Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Education
"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 surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Education A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Education
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Education "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Education
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Education "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Education
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Education 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 Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. 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 Education
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Education A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Education
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Education Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley 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 To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Education
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Education I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Education
