"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Education "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Education
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Education Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Marriage is a rest period between romances. Education cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Education
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Education
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Education We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Education
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Education The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Education
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "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) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Education The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Education
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Education "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Education
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Education Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Education
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die 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 "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Education If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Education
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Education
