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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Student Groups There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Student Groups
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Student Groups Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Student Groups
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Student Groups We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Student Groups
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Student Groups 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings 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 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 Student Groups
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Student Groups Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Student Groups
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Student Groups However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Student Groups
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Student Groups Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Student Groups
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Student Groups For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Student Groups
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Student Groups His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Student Groups
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Student Groups The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Student Groups
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Student Groups Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Student Groups
