The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Education Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Education
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Education
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Education When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Education
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Education Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Education
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Education "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) 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 "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Education
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Education All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Education
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Education After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Education To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Education
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Education "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Education
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Education Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Education
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Education As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Education
