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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Education There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Education An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Education Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Education
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Education "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Education
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Education There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Education
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Education "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Education
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Education Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Education
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Education "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Education
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Education People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Education "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Education
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Education The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Education
