"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Education He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Education
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier 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 blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Education
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Education A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West 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 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Education He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Education
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Education "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Education
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Education We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Education
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "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 Education Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Education
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Education Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Education
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon 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 Education If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Education
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Education They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C 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 Education
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Education For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 Education
