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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Secondary Schools If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Secondary Schools
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Secondary Schools "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Secondary Schools
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 Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Secondary Schools A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Secondary Schools
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Secondary Schools A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Secondary Schools
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Secondary Schools "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Secondary Schools
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Secondary Schools "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Secondary Schools
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) 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 average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Secondary Schools "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Secondary Schools
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Secondary Schools Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Secondary Schools
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Secondary Schools We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Secondary Schools
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Secondary Schools "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Secondary Schools
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Secondary Schools "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Secondary Schools
