"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Education Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Education
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Education Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Education
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "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) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Education Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Education
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Education blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Education
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Education Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Education
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "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 Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Education I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Education
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Education Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Education
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Education In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Education
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "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) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Education The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Education
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Education It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Education
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne 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 Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Education "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Education
