The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Colleges, Schools and Lyceums "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Colleges, Schools and Lyceums
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Colleges, Schools and Lyceums When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Colleges, Schools and Lyceums
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Colleges, Schools and Lyceums 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 "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Colleges, Schools and Lyceums
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Colleges, Schools and Lyceums The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Colleges, Schools and Lyceums
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Colleges, Schools and Lyceums I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Colleges, Schools and Lyceums
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story 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 "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Colleges, Schools and Lyceums This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Colleges, Schools and Lyceums
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "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 The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Colleges, Schools and Lyceums Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Colleges, Schools and Lyceums
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had 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 Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Colleges, Schools and Lyceums "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Colleges, Schools and Lyceums
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm 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 "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Colleges, Schools and Lyceums To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Colleges, Schools and Lyceums
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Colleges, Schools and Lyceums "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Colleges, Schools and Lyceums
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Colleges, Schools and Lyceums "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Colleges, Schools and Lyceums
