In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) 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" Home Schooling The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Home Schooling
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Home Schooling Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Home Schooling
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Home Schooling Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Home Schooling
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Home Schooling 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 Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Home Schooling
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Home Schooling Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Home Schooling
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Home Schooling Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Home Schooling
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Home Schooling You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Home Schooling
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain 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 The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Home Schooling For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Home Schooling
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Home Schooling I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Home Schooling
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Home Schooling Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Home Schooling
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Home Schooling A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Home Schooling
