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"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Secondary Schools "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Secondary Schools
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Secondary Schools "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Secondary Schools
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Secondary Schools If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Secondary Schools
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Secondary Schools Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Secondary Schools
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Secondary Schools 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 When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Secondary Schools
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 When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Secondary Schools 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 Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Secondary Schools
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Secondary Schools Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Secondary Schools
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Secondary Schools 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Secondary Schools
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Secondary Schools "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Secondary Schools
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Secondary Schools If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Secondary Schools
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Secondary Schools Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Secondary Schools
