The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Education Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Education
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Education Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Education
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Education He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Education
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Education Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Education
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Education
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Education Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Education
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) 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 Education To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Education
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Education "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Education
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham 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 Education blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Education
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Education The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Education
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Education Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Education
