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"What do you think is wrong with Education today?"
"We are preparing kids that no longer exist for a world that is no longer there."
Gena Boyte Dickinson.

"A generation which ignores history has no past--and no future."
Lazarus Long - Time Enough For Love - Robert Anson Heinlein

"A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'"
Conan O'Brien

"A woman broke up with me and sent me pictures of her and her new boyfriend in bed together. Solution?? I sent them to her dad."
Christopher Case

"Adam was but human-this explains it all.
He did not want the apple for the apple's sake,
he wanted it only because it was forbidden."
Mark Twain [Samual Langhorne Clemens] 1835-1910.
Pudd' Wilson, chapter heading.

"An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered."
G. K. Chesterton

"Behind every successful man is a surprised woman."
Maryon Pearson

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."
James Bryant Conant

"Believe nothing,
no matter where you read it, or who said it,
even if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
The Buddha

"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."
Oscar Wilde

"Bumper sticker: He who dies with the most toys wins.
A later bumper sticker: He who dies with the most toys, still dies."
Anon

"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others."
Winston Churchill

"Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut."
Daniel Greenberg

"Don't outsmart yourself."
Anon

"Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents."
William Coronel

"During the calm waters, every ship has a great Captain."
Swedish Proverb

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed."
Mahatma Gandhi

"Emergency Stopping Only
Whale watching is NOT an emergency.
Keep driving."
A road sign at a seashore.

"Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player."
Marsha Warfield

"For Cindy, a hot day is one where all the ice melts.
On a warm day, most of it melts.
I'm not sure there ARE cold days."
Dennis Dickinson.

"For every 60 seconds of being angry you lose 1 minute of happiness."
A note I found on a wall in an abandoned office.

"Have you ever noticed.... Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"
George Carlin

"I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house."
Zsa Zsa Gabor

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world."
Albert Einstein

"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants."
A. Whitney Brown

"I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch."
Gilda Radner

"I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That may be. But I think there's one other thing that separates us from animals. We aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners."
Jeff Stilson

"I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people."
Ed Bluestone

"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."
Gloria Steinem

"I hear and I forget. I see and I understand. I do and I remember."
Chinese Proverb

"I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was, 'You'll never find anyone like me again!' I'm thinking, 'I should hope not? If I don't want you, why would I want someone like you?'-"
Larry Miller

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."
Mother Teresa

"I never married because there was no need.
I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband.
I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night."
Marie Corelli

"I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry."
Rita Rudner

"I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'"
Richard Jeni

"I think, therefore I'm single."
Lizz Winstead

"I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours."
Rita Rudner

"I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else."
Lily Tomlin

"I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on."
Roseanne Barr

"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb...
and I also know that I'm not blonde. "
Dolly Parton

"I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog."
Wendy Liebman

"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base."
Dave Barry

"If all you have is a hammer then everything looks like a nail."
Anon

"If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them."
Sue Grafton

"If I had my life to live over,
I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall.
I would go to more dances.
I would ride more merry-go-rounds.
I would pick more daisies."
Nadine Stair, quoted in Voluntary Simplicity : Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich. By Duane Elgin

"If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion."
Lazarus Long - Time Enough For Love - Robert Anson Heinlein

"If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight."
George Gobel

"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead."
Johnny Carson

"If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties?
How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?"
Linda Ellerbee

"If your dog thinks your the greatest, don't seek a second opinion."
A Tshirt

"I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain."
Carol Leifer

"In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?"
Warren Hutcherson

"In life, there are Makers, Takers, and Fakers. Which are you?"
Lazarus Long - Time Enough For Love(?) - Robert Anson Heinlein

"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman."
Margaret Thatcher

"It is better to wear out than rust out."
George Whitefield

"It's a good thing most crooks are stupid, or we would be in big trouble."
Paul David Andries, Avoyelles Parish Sherrif's Deputy and my college roomate in 1979, at NLU

"It's not what I don't know that hurts me.
It's what I do know that's not so."
Dennis Dickinson

"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone."
Arnold Bennett

"Let your ambitions further your accomplishments,
not overshadow them."
Chinese Proverb

"Life is a ribbon.
Are you tying yours in knots or bows?"
Anon

"Life is uncertain. Always eat desert first."
Garfield.

"May
The road rise up to meet your feet,
The wind be always at your back,
The sun shine warmly on your face,
The rain fall softly on your fields.

And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of his hand."
An Irish prayer.

"My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives."
Rita Rudner

"My mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'"
Paula Poundstone

"Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. "
Baroness Edith Summerskill

"Never a horse that couldn't be rode.
Never a rider that couldn't be throwed."

"Never judge a day by the weather."
Anon

"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."
Erma Bombeck

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
Lazarus Long - Time Enough For Love - Robert Anson Heinlein

"No rain, no rainbows."
Anon

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. "
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash."
Jerry Seinfeld

"Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait."
A. Whitney Brown

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Sir J. E. E. Dalberg, First Baron Acton 1834-1918

"Relationships are hard. It's like a full-time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay, and before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp."
Bob Ettinger

"Remember, wherever you go, there you are."
Anon - This is very popular now, but I first heard it in Texas, in 1987.

"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry."
Gloria Steinem

"Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?"
Marsha Warfield

"Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."
Paul Rodriguez

"Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself."
Mark Twain

"Take cover?!
Why, at this range, they couldn't hit the side of a ba..."
Famous last words. Supposedly of a General, during the Civil War.

"Tattoo Charlie's. Tatoos while you wait."
Billboard on a hillside, on a northbound Interstate in Kentucky, USA.
Every time I try to come up with alternatives, I laugh some more.

"Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
Anon-Chinese proverb?

"Tell the truth, there's less to remember."
Anon

"The best things in life aren't things."
Anon

"The early bird gets the worm. The early worm..."
Anon

"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
he restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness
for his name's sake.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.

You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of Lord forever."
Psalm 23, New International Version Bible

"The more dangerous form of censorship is internal, imposed by artists who are afraid of challenging established values."
Andrzei Wajda

"The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise."
Roger Simon

"The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it."
Jackie Gleason

"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity."
Thomas H. Huxley

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."
Rita Mae Brown

"The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever see that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. 'Come on, buddy, let's go. You get past me, the guy in back of me, he's got a spoon. Back off. I've got the toe clippers right here.'"
Jerry Seinfeld

"There are no dangerous weapons, only dangerous people."
Lazarus Long - Time Enough For Love(?) - Robert Anson Heinlein

"There are three ways to get things done:
do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your children to do it."
Monta Crane

"Think"
Small sign very commonly found in IBM shops, long ago.

"Time waits for no man...and damn few women!"
Delores Cobb

"Try?! No! Do! Or do not! There is no try."
Yoda, Return Of The Jedi.

"We do not see things as they are.
We see things as we are."
Talmud

"What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?"
Marilyn Pittman

"What weapons do you think will be used in the next World War?
"I don't know.
But I do know what will be used in the World War after that.
Sticks and Stones"."
Albert Einstein

"When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping.
Men invade another country. "
Elayne Boosler

"When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?"
Robin Williams

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."
Henry J. Kaiser

"Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?
We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him."
Matthew 2:2 New International Version Bible

"Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end."
Jerry Seinfeld

"Wheresoever she was, there was Eden."
Mark Twain [Samual Langhorne Clemens] 1835-1910. Adam at Eve' graveside, "Diaries of Adam and Eve"

"Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God....I could be eating a slow learner."
Lynda Montgomery

"Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?"
Lily Tomlin

"You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is."
Ellen DeGeneres

"You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in you go.
And if you want to paint hell, go ahead and paint it,
but then don't blame me,
and don't blame your parents,
and don't blame society..."
Nikos Kazantzakis, quoted in Living, Loving, and Learning. By Leo F. Buscaglia.

"You live and learn. Or you don't live long."
Lazarus Long - Time Enough For Love - Robert Anson Heinlein

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose,
for this thing we call failure is not the falling down,
but the staying down."
Mary Pickford

"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women,
but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."
Erica Jong

"You're only young once.
But if you do it right, once is enough."
Dennis Dickinson

 

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