"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Education "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Education
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Education One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Education
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Education "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Education
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Education The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Education
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Education "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Education
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner 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 "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Education
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Education Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Education
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Education Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Education
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Education If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Education
"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 ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Education Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Education
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "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 If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Education Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. 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. My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Education
