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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 We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Education "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Education
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Education
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Education "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Education
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Education I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Education
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Education The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Education
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Education 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 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 You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Education
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Education "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Education
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Education Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Education
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Education Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Education
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Education The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Education
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Education Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Education
