blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Directories Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Directories
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Directories "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Directories
"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 blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Directories Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Directories
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Directories As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Directories
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Directories You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Directories
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Directories The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Directories
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) 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 Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Directories "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Directories
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Directories Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Directories
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Directories "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Directories
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Directories "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "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 Directories
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson 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 Directories "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Directories
