Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Education
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Education "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) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Education
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Education
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "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) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Education Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Education
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Education Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Education
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "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) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Education I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Education
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Education "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Education
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Education "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Education
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 Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Education "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Education
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Education 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 Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Education
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Education Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Education
