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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Education "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Education
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle 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 Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Education
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Education
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Education If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Education
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Education "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Education
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Education Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Education
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-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 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 Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Education "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Education
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Education
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier 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 "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Education Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Education
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
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 "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Education "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Education
