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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi 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 Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Agriculture "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Agriculture
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Agriculture What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Agriculture
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "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) Agriculture "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Agriculture
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Agriculture Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Agriculture
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Agriculture Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Agriculture
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Agriculture "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Agriculture
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Agriculture "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Agriculture
Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Agriculture "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Agriculture
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Agriculture Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "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 Agriculture
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Agriculture This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Agriculture
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "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) Agriculture Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Agriculture
