Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Public and State Schools A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Public and State Schools
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Public and State Schools The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire 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 "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Public and State Schools
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Public and State Schools 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 Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Public and State Schools
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Public and State Schools "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Public and State Schools
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Public and State Schools Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Public and State Schools
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Public and State Schools If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Public and State Schools
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Public and State Schools A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Public and State Schools
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Public and State Schools He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Public and State Schools
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Public and State Schools Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Public and State Schools
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Public and State Schools "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) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Public and State Schools
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "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 There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Public and State Schools Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Public and State Schools
