A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel 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 "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Pre-School Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Pre-School
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Pre-School Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Pre-School
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Pre-School They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Pre-School
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Pre-School "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Pre-School
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Pre-School If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Pre-School
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pre-School Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Pre-School
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Pre-School "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) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Pre-School
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Pre-School "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Pre-School
blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Pre-School I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Pre-School
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Pre-School I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Pre-School
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Pre-School "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Pre-School
