"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott 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.
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Education True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha 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 Education
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Education To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Education
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Education A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Education
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Education The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Education
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Education Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Education
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Education "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Education
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Education The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Education
I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Education
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Education "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Education
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess 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 Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Education My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Education
