Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Education "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Education
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Education "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Education
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Education "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Education
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Education I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Education
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa 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 I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Education Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Education
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Education That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Education
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli 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 "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Education
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Education
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Education It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Education
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Education Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Education
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 What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Education Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Education
