"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Education Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Education
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Education "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Education
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Education "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Education
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon 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 Education Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "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 can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Education
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) 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 "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Education
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Education "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Education
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Education In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Education
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Education I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Education
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Education "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Education
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Education No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Education
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Education Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Education
