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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board 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 Education "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Education
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Education See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Education
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "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 In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Education "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Education
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Education In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Education
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Education When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Education
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Education "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Education
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Education The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Education
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "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) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Education May you never leave your marriage alive. My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Education
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Education "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Education
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Education His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 Education
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Education Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Education
