Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Education Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Education
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Education Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Education
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Education A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Education
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Education "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Education
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Education "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Education
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Education If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) 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
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "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 Education
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Education It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Education
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "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) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Education Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Education Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Education
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 "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Education 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 My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Education
