"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley 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 Education "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Education
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Education Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Education
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Education
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Education A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams 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 Education
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Education The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Education
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "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) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Education 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 "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Education
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Education "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Education
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Education "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Education
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Education 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 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 The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Education
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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' Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Education The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Education
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Education
