Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov 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 Specialized Instruction "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Specialized Instruction
"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) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Specialized Instruction "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Specialized Instruction
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Specialized Instruction He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "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 The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Specialized Instruction
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Specialized Instruction Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Specialized Instruction
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Specialized Instruction Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Specialized Instruction
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Specialized Instruction "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Specialized Instruction
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Specialized Instruction Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Specialized Instruction
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Specialized Instruction I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Specialized Instruction
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Specialized Instruction There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Specialized Instruction
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Specialized Instruction "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Specialized Instruction
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Specialized Instruction "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Specialized Instruction
