Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Government The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Government
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Government Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Government
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "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 blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Government Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Government
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Government It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Government
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Government Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Government
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Government A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Government
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Government The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Government
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Government Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Government
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller 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 It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Government
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Government Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Government
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 A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Government Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Government
