"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Running The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Running
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 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 Running "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 Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Running
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Running Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "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 If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Running
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Running Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Running
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Running "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Running
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Running "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Running
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Running Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Running
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Running I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Running
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Running He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Running
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Running "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Running
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Running All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Running
