When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Education Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler 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. I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Education "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Education
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Education I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Education
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Education I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Education
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Education "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Education
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Education To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Education
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Education The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Education
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Education Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Education
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Education Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Education
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Education In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Education
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Education Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Education
