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If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Education Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Education
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 Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Education "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Education
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 "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Education "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Education
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Education Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Education
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Education "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Education
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Education
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Education The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Education
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Education A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Education
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Education There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Education
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Education For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "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) Education
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Education Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Education
