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"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Education There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Education
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Education It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Education
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Education "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
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 Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Education "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Education
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Education Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside 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 Education
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Education Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Education
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Education "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Education
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Education They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Education
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Education
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer 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 "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Education It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Education
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Education Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
