"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Education A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Education
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Education "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Education
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 Nietzsche "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Education I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Education
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Education I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Education
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Education Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Education
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Education Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Education
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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. If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Education There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Education
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner 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 A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Education
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Education An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Education
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Education Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Education
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 the sole cause of divorce. Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Education Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Education
