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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Graduate Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Graduate
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Graduate Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Graduate
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 I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "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 Graduate Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Graduate
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Graduate Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Graduate
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Graduate Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Graduate
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Graduate "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Graduate
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 The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Graduate "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Graduate
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Graduate I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Graduate
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Graduate "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Graduate
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Graduate Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Graduate
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 Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Graduate It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Graduate
