During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Education "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) 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 Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Education Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Education
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Education "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Education
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove 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 Education You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Education
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Education With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Education
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Education "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Education
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Education "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Education
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) 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 I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "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) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Education Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Education
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Education
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Education I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Education
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Education That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Education
