Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Society and Culture Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Society and Culture
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Society and Culture "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Society and Culture
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Society and Culture "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Society and Culture
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Society and Culture
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage is a rest period between romances. Society and Culture Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Society and Culture It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Society and Culture
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Society and Culture A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Society and Culture
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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 Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society and Culture "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) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Society and Culture
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 One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Society and Culture People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Society and Culture
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie 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 She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Society and Culture However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
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