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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Education Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Education
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Education Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Education
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Education "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Education
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Education There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 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 Education
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 Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Education My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Education
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Education English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Education
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Education All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Education
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Education When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Education Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Education
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Education Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Education
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Education
