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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Resources There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Resources
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Resources "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Resources
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) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Resources Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Resources
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Resources Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Resources
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Resources blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My other wife is beautiful. Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Resources
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 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 Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Resources The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Resources
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Resources See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Resources
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Resources For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Resources
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius 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 As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Resources Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Resources
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Resources "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Resources
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Resources Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb 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' Resources