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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 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 Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Universities "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "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) Universities
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Universities The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Universities
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset 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 Universities The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Universities
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Universities "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Universities
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Universities If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Universities
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Universities I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Universities
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Universities One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Universities
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Universities ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Universities
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Universities Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Universities
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) 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 It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Universities A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Universities
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Universities The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Universities
