Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Education Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown 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 Education There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Education
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "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 Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Education
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Education
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Education "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Education Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Education
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Education The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Education
We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Education My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Education
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack 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 "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Education The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Education
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Education If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Education
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Education "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Education
