Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Education A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 Education
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Education I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller 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 "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Education
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Education Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Education
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 America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Education "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Education
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Education "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle 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 Education
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "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) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Education Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "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 Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Education Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Education
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Education Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Education
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Education A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Education
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Education
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Education A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Education
