"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Education Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Education "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Education
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Education A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Education
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Education Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Education
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker 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 America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Education "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law 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 Education
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Education Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Education
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Education
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Education "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Education
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 "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Education Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Education
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Education "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Education
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) 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 He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Education People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Education
