An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) 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 Education Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Education When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Education
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Education Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Education
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Education
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Education It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Education
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Education I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "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) Education
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Education The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Education
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Education "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Education
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Education If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Education
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Education Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Education
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Education A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Education
