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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Education You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Education
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "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 He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Education
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 Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Education The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Education
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Education One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Education
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Education 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' My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Education
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Education It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Education
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Education You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Education
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 "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) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Education Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Education
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit 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 I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Education
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All 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 "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Education It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Education
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald 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 Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Education "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Education
