We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Education "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Education
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Education English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Education "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "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) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Education
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Education "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Education
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Education Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Education
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Education
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Education "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Education
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Education If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Education
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 The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Education "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Education
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Education "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Education
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Education Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Education
