A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi 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" See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Arts and Entertainment
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley 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' Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Arts and Entertainment Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Arts and Entertainment
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Arts and Entertainment 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 I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Arts and Entertainment
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 "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Arts and Entertainment Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Arts and Entertainment 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 Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Arts and Entertainment
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Arts and Entertainment Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Arts and Entertainment
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Arts and Entertainment Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Arts and Entertainment
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara 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 It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Arts and Entertainment I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Arts and Entertainment
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Arts and Entertainment There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb 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 Arts and Entertainment
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Arts and Entertainment We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Arts and Entertainment
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming 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 If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Arts and Entertainment In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Arts and Entertainment
