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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry High Schools Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau High Schools
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) High Schools It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) High Schools
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) High Schools Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde High Schools
"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) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison High Schools Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu High Schools
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. High Schools Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "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 High Schools
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) High Schools "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) High Schools
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun High Schools People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod High Schools
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) High Schools "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) High Schools
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton 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 It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe High Schools And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch High Schools
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) High Schools The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran High Schools
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "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) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed High Schools Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli High Schools
