I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Reunions and Alumni To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Reunions and Alumni
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Reunions and Alumni 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 A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Reunions and Alumni
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell 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 If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Reunions and Alumni 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 Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Reunions and Alumni
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Reunions and Alumni Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Reunions and Alumni
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Reunions and Alumni While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Reunions and Alumni
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Reunions and Alumni "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) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Reunions and Alumni
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "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) Reunions and Alumni In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Reunions and Alumni
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Reunions and Alumni "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Reunions and Alumni
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Reunions and Alumni The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Reunions and Alumni
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Reunions and Alumni A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Reunions and Alumni
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Reunions and Alumni I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Reunions and Alumni
