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A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt College Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea College
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau College A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) College
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron College "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln College
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur College "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James College
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 The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain College Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous College
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. College I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres College
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed College Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken College
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf College Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken College
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) College "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) College
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge College "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) College
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) College Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt College
