Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Maps and Views Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Maps and Views
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Maps and Views I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "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 "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Maps and Views
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "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 Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Maps and Views "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Maps and Views
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Maps and Views "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Maps and Views
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Maps and Views If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Maps and Views
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Maps and Views Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Maps and Views
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward 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 Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Maps and Views A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Maps and Views
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein 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 Maps and Views Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Maps and Views
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Maps and Views blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "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 "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Maps and Views Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Maps and Views
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Maps and Views 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 Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Maps and Views
