Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Crotone "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed 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 Crotone
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) Crotone We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Crotone
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Crotone The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Crotone
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe 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 Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Crotone It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Crotone
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "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) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Crotone It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed 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 Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Crotone
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Crotone He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Crotone
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Crotone I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Crotone
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 Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Crotone Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Crotone
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama 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 Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Crotone "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Crotone
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Crotone "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Crotone
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Crotone The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Crotone
