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blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Education In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Education
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Education Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "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) Education Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Education
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Education There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Education
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Education In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Education
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Education We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Education
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Education This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Education
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Education When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Education
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Education Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Education
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Education All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Education
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Marriage is a rest period between romances. The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Education "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
