"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Sappada "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Sappada
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Sappada UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Sappada
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger 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 I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Sappada Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Sappada
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Sappada Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Sappada
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Sappada "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Sappada
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Sappada Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Sappada
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Sappada "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Sappada
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 Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Sappada We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Sappada
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Sappada "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Sappada
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Sappada A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Sappada
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "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 Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Sappada "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Sappada
