It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Education We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Education
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Education He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Education
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Education There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Education
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Education A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Education
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Education 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 Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Education
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Education "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) 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 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Education
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Education "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Education
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Education "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Education
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Education When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Education
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Education Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Education
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Education Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Education
