If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Education
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Education Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Education
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Education "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. 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 Education
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Education "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude 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 Education 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 The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Education
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 Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Education "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Education
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Education 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Education "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Education
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Education When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Education
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Education I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Education
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Education Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Education
