I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Serrara Fontana "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Serrara Fontana
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson 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 Serrara Fontana Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Serrara Fontana
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Serrara Fontana "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Serrara Fontana
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Serrara Fontana Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Serrara Fontana
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Serrara Fontana Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Serrara Fontana
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Serrara Fontana Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Serrara Fontana
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Serrara Fontana Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Serrara Fontana
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Serrara Fontana Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Serrara Fontana
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov 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 "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Serrara Fontana >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Serrara Fontana
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Serrara Fontana If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Serrara Fontana
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Serrara Fontana Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Serrara Fontana
