Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Education Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Education
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Education May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Education
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Education "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Education
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Education Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Education
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "Think off-center." (George Carlin) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Education "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Education
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Education Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Education
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Education Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Education
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 He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman 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 Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Education "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Education
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Education blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Education
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Education Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Education
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Education My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Education
