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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Education I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Education
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Education "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Education
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Education "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) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger 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 Education
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Education Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Education
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "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 Education blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Education
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian May you never leave your marriage alive. Education Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Education
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Education You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Education
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "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) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Education Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Education
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Education "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Education
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Education 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" Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
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 I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Education "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Education
