In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Education Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Education
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Education Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Education
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Education "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Education
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Education 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 A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Education
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Education "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Education
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Education If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Education I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Education
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Education A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Education
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen 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 Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Education "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Education
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Education Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Education
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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.
-- Crow She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Education
