"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Training Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey 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 Training
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Training Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Training
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Training "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Training
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Training "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Training
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Training Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) 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 Training
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Training "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Training
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Training In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Training
"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) 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 When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Training "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Training
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Training Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Training
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Training "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Training
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Training When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
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