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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Bashkort "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Bashkort
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Bashkort Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Bashkort
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Bashkort "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Bashkort
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Bashkort "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 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 To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Bashkort
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Bashkort There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Bashkort
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Bashkort Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Bashkort
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman 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 A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Bashkort Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Bashkort
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "'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, Through the Looking Glass) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Bashkort "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bashkort
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb 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 An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Bashkort Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Bashkort
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Bashkort Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Bashkort
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Bashkort 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 My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Bashkort
