Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Education A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Education
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Education The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long 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 "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Education
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Education Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso 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 "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Education
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Education I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Education
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Education "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Education
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Education "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Education
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Education 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 Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Education
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Education The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Education
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "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 Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Education I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Education
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Education "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Education
