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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Education 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 If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Education
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Education A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Education
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Education "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) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Education
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Education "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 Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Education
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Education "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Education
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time 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 "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Education While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Education
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Education "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Education
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Education Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Spinster: A bachelor's wife. 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
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Education What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Education
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Education A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Education
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Education When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Education
