Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Education "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "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) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Education
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Education Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Education
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Education Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Education
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Education "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Education
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Education
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Education Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Education
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Education My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Education
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Education I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 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 Education
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Education It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Education
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Education It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Education
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Education Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Education
