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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Man and wife make one fool. Visual Arts We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Visual Arts
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Visual Arts Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Visual Arts
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Visual Arts As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Visual Arts
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Visual Arts Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Visual Arts
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Visual Arts I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Visual Arts
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Visual Arts Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Visual Arts
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Visual Arts Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Visual Arts
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 Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers 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' Visual Arts "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Visual Arts
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Visual Arts Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Visual Arts
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Visual Arts Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Visual Arts
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Visual Arts Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Visual Arts
