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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Costabissara The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Costabissara
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "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 The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Costabissara We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Costabissara
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Costabissara "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 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 "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Costabissara
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Costabissara Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Costabissara
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Costabissara Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Costabissara
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Costabissara "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 Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Costabissara
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Costabissara If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Costabissara
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover 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 Costabissara If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Costabissara
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Costabissara A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Costabissara
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Costabissara A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Costabissara
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Costabissara He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Costabissara
