Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin 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 Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Dilos I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Dilos
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Dilos A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Dilos
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Dilos Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Dilos
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Dilos 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 By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Dilos
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Dilos Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dilos
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Dilos "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Dilos
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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." An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Dilos 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 "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Dilos
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dilos "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs 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 Dilos
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Dilos "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Dilos
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Dilos Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Dilos
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Dilos Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "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 Dilos
