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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Death Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Death
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Death "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Death
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Death "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Death
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Death "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Death
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Death The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Death
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Death "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Death
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Death When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Death
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Death The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Death
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Death An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Death
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle 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 "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Death Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Death
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Death Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Death
