Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Elementary Schools Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Elementary Schools
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Elementary Schools "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Elementary Schools
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Elementary Schools Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Elementary Schools
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Elementary Schools "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Elementary Schools
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Elementary Schools You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Elementary Schools
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "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) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Elementary Schools Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Elementary Schools
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Elementary Schools Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Elementary Schools
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Elementary Schools Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Elementary Schools
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Elementary Schools We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Elementary Schools
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "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) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Elementary Schools Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Elementary Schools
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous 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, If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Elementary Schools To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Elementary Schools
