Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden 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 Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Education CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Education
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "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) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Education Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Education "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Education
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Education Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Education
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Education The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Education Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Education
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas 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 Education "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Education
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Education Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Education
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Education I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Education
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Education 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? Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Education
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Education Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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
