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He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Carlow A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Carlow
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Carlow "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Carlow
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Carlow "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Carlow
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Carlow "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Carlow
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Carlow The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Carlow
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 Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Carlow Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Carlow
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Carlow Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Carlow
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Carlow Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Carlow
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 As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Carlow 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 I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Carlow Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Carlow
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates 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 Carlow Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Carlow
