Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Specialized Instruction Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Specialized Instruction
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller 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 "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 Specialized Instruction If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Specialized Instruction
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Specialized Instruction "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Specialized Instruction
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Specialized Instruction If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Specialized Instruction
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Specialized Instruction Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Specialized Instruction
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Specialized Instruction They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Specialized Instruction
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "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) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Specialized Instruction "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Specialized Instruction
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Specialized Instruction When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Specialized Instruction
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Specialized Instruction Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Specialized Instruction
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Specialized Instruction "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Specialized Instruction
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Specialized Instruction First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Specialized Instruction
