Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier By Department I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli 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 By Department
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy By Department Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. By Department
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli By Department Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom By Department
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 "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright By Department "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson By Department
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) By Department What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman By Department
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana By Department "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh By Department
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. By Department A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn By Department
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson By Department "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper By Department
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel By Department Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone 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 The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski By Department
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero By Department A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling By Department
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller By Department To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein By Department
