If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the My other wife is beautiful. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Education The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Education
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Education
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Education "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Education
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Education Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Education
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Education We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Stal If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Education
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein 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 Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Education 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 "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Education
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "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) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Education Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Education
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Education I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Education
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Education To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Education
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Education 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 Nietzsche If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Education
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Education "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Education
