It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
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-- Anonymous Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Localities Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Localities
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Localities The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Localities
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
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-- Billy Sunday It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Localities If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Localities
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Localities Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Localities My other wife is beautiful. Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Localities
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Localities Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Localities
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Localities If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Localities
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Localities Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Localities
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Localities Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Localities
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Localities Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Localities
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Localities Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Localities
