We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Education He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Education
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Education Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Education
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Education "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Education
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Education "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Education
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Education The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Education
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Education Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Education
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Education "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Education
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Education When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Education
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Education Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Education
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Education "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "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 The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Education
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Education Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Education
