We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words 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 Aube Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Aube
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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 Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Aube Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Aube
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Aube Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Aube
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Aube If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Aube
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Aube I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
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-- Anonymous Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
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-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Aube
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Aube A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Aube
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Aube "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Aube
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Aube Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Aube
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Aube Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Aube
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Aube The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Aube
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Aube "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Aube
