Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Education Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Education
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Education "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Education
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) 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 Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Education A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Education
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Education History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Education The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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 Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Education
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Education "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Education
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Education Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Education
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Education There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Education
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Education A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Education
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g 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 Education Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor 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
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron 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 When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Education I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
