I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Education Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Education
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Education "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Education
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Education "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Education
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. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Education "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Education
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler 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 "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Education 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 Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Education
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 "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Education
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Education Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Education
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Education The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Education My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Education
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Education You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Education
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Education "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Education
