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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Education and Research We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz 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 and Research
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Education and Research "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Education and Research
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Education and Research We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Education and Research
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Education and Research A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education and Research
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Education and Research "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Education and Research
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Education and Research "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Education and Research
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Education and Research Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart 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 Education and Research
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Education and Research "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Education and Research "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Education and Research
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Education and Research For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Education and Research
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Education and Research If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Education and Research
