"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Education "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Education
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr 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 In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Education The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Education
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Education If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Education
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Education Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Education "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Education
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Education "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Education
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Education "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Education
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Education Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Education "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Education
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Education He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Education
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Education "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Education
