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 "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Specialized Instruction Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Specialized Instruction
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa 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 The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen 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 Specialized Instruction "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Specialized Instruction
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Specialized Instruction To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Specialized Instruction
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Specialized Instruction This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Specialized Instruction
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) 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 Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Specialized Instruction "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Specialized Instruction
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Specialized Instruction Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Specialized Instruction
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Specialized Instruction I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Specialized Instruction
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Specialized Instruction What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Specialized Instruction
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) 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 The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Specialized Instruction "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Specialized Instruction
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Specialized Instruction You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Specialized Instruction
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Specialized Instruction Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Specialized Instruction
