Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Education "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
My other wife is beautiful. "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Education You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Education I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Education
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Education "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Education
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Education "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Education
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) 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.
-- If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Education Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Education "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Education
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Education It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Education
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Education "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
"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) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Education Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Education
