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We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Education Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Education
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Education
"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Education Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Education
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Education The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Education
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Education "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Education
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Education "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Education
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Education Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Education
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Education Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Education
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Education Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Education
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Education "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) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Education
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Education My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Education
