Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Education I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Education
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.
-- Crowf "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Education "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Education "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Education
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James 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 telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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-- Henny Youngman Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Education
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Education In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Education
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Education "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Education
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "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) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Education Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Education
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Education Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Education
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, 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 His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Education And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Education Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Education
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 What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Education All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Education
