For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Education A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Education
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine 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 blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Education Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Education
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Education Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Education
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Education I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Education
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Education The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Education
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Education Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Education
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Education Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Education
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Education "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Education
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein 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. I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Education I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein 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 I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Education
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Education Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
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experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Education
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Education "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein 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
