Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Education 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 Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Education
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 If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Education If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Education Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins 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 We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Education
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Education I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Education No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Education
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Education The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "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) Education
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Education "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Education
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Education The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Education We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Education
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Education "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Education
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Education I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Education
