The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Education I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Education
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens 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 Education Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Education
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "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 "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Education Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman 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 Education
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Education "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Education
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Education A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Education
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Education The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
"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) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Education Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Education
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Education If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Education "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "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) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Education
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Man and wife make one fool. 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 The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Education "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Education
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Education A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
