The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Education I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Education
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Education "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Education When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Education
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Education "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Education You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Education
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Education The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Education "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Education
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Education "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Education
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Education Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Education
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Education Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Education
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) 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 Education "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Education
