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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Education "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Education
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Education You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Education
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow 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 Education The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Education
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Education Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb 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 The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Education "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Education
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Education Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Education
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Education Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Education
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Education Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Education
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Education I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Education
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Education
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Education Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Education
