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My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Education Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Education
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Education The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Education
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev 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 Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) 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 Education I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Education
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Education Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Education
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "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..." ( I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Education You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Education
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Education ... 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
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 "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Education
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Education The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Education
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Education Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Education
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. 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 A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Education Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Education
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Education Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Education
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Education Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Education
