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If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Education The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Education
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Education Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Education
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Education If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa 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 The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Education Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Education
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Education They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "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" Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Education
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Education All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Education
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Education Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Education
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Education "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Education
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Education "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Education
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Education Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Education
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Education There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Education
