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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Education After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Education
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team 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 I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Education God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Education
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Education A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Education
"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 "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Education Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Education
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Education I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Education
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Education One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Education
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 Education Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Education
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Education A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Education
"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) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Education 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 Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Education
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence 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 With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Education Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Education
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Education Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is a rest period between romances. "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Education
