Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents 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 "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Education Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Education
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Education We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Education
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Education
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Education A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Education
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight 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 Education It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Education
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Education It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Education
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Education Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Education
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Education "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Education
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Education If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Education
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Education "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Education
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Education Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Education
