These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House 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 If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Education Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Education
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Education If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Education
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Education Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Education
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Education Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Education
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) 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. "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 "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Education
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Education Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Man and wife make one fool. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Education
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Education Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Education
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Education Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Education
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Education Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Education
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Education "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Education
Man and wife make one fool. When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Education I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Education
