"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) 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 Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Specialized Instruction Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Specialized Instruction
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Specialized Instruction The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Specialized Instruction
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) 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 "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) 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. 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 Specialized Instruction "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Specialized Instruction
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Specialized Instruction "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Specialized Instruction
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Specialized Instruction An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Specialized Instruction
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Specialized Instruction "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k 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 If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Specialized Instruction
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Specialized Instruction Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
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Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Specialized Instruction To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Specialized Instruction
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Specialized Instruction The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Specialized Instruction
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Specialized Instruction Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Specialized Instruction
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous 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 "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Specialized Instruction "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
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