Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) U There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare U
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) U Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason U
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) U Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) U
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant U What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski U
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton U Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the U
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) U There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana U
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 U Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides U
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait U If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber U
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana U "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back U
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw U There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. U
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show 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 Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain U It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein U
