Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Brcko District Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Brcko District
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Brcko District Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Brcko District
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Brcko District "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. 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 Brcko District
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Brcko District The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Brcko District
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Brcko District The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Brcko District
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Brcko District We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Brcko District
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy 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 "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Brcko District Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Brcko District
Man and wife make one fool. Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent 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 There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Brcko District There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Brcko District
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Brcko District More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Brcko District
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Brcko District This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Brcko District
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Brcko District Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Brcko District
