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It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Skating "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Skating
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Skating All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Skating
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Skating Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Skating
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Skating "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers 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 Skating
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler 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 "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Skating Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Skating
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Skating Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Skating
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Skating "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') 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 "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Skating
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Skating blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Skating
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Skating Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Skating
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "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) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Skating Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Skating
"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 Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Skating Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Skating
