Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Specialized Instruction Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Specialized Instruction
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Specialized Instruction Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Specialized Instruction
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Specialized Instruction "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as 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 "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Specialized Instruction Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Specialized Instruction
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Specialized Instruction It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Specialized Instruction
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Specialized Instruction No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Specialized Instruction
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban 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 Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Specialized Instruction Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Specialized Instruction
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Specialized Instruction "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck 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
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May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Specialized Instruction "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Specialized Instruction
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Specialized Instruction "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Specialized Instruction
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Specialized Instruction 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 "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Count your age with friends but not with years.
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