We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Education Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Education A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery 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. Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Education
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Education There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Education
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (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. -- Guitry Education Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Education
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Education Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Education
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Education Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "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 When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Education
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "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 "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Education "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Education
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Education "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) 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 Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Education
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan May you never leave your marriage alive. This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Education Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Education
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Education Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Education
