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A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw 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' It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Education Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Education
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Education Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Education
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Education An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Education
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) 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,
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Education Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Education
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one 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 You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Education It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Education
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Education "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Education
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Education Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Education
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Education Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Education
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "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) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Education Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Education
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Education "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Education
