The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Education One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Education
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Education "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Education
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Education Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Education
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Education Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Education
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry 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 Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Education
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Education Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Education
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Education
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Education "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Education
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Education Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Education
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Education >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian 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 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) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Education Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Education
