I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Photography "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Photography
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Photography What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Photography
I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Photography I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Photography
"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) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Photography Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Photography
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Photography The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Photography
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "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) Photography blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "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 I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Photography
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Photography Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Photography
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Photography It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Photography
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Photography Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Photography
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Photography The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "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) 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 Photography
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Photography Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Photography
