You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Education Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Education
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Education Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Education
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Education He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Education
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Education What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Education
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Education They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Education
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little 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 Education If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Education
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Education "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Education
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Education Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Education
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Education A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Education
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Education Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben 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 The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Education Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Education
