quotes on exams tension

I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm. ~Ogden Nash



The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here? ~Mason Cooley



A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. ~Arnold H. Glasgow



Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis. ~Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts," Saturday Night Live



There's no thief like a bad movie. ~Sam Ewing



George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles. ~Author Unknown



No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman. ~Van Wyck Brooks



When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. ~Sacha Guitry, Elles et toi, 1948



The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age. ~Russell Baker, New York Times, 1 May 1969



Would you keep a chive on your tooth just because you enjoyed last night's potato? ~From the television show Boston Common



We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. ~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi



Sit down, and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ~Colette, Casual Chance, 1964



It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ~Abba Eban



If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. ~Saint Augustine



The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. ~Colin Wilson



Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com