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 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 Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Education "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Education
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Education "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Education
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Education Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Education The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Education
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Education If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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 "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Education
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Education May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Education
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau 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 wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Education Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) 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 Education
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Education blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Education
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Education "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Education
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Education "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Education
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Education The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Education
