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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Education We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "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) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Education
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Education "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh 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 Education
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Education
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Education 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 "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Education
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 Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Education Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Education A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Education
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Education Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Education
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Education The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Education
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) 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) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Education
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Education Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Education
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Education The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Education
