"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Education Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Education
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Education I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Education
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Education Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper 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 Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Education
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Education Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Education
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Education "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "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) 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 Education
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Education
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Education I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber 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 By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Education
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Marriage is a rest period between romances. "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "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 The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Education Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Education I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "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) Education
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Education The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
