Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi >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 people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Education I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Education
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Education Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Education
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 Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh 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 The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Education You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Education
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Education We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) 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 Education
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Education Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Education
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Education I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Education
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Education Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Education
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Education All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Education
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) 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 Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Education Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Education
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Education However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Education
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H 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 Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Education If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
