The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Education As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Education
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 Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Education Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 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 The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Education You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Education
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Education Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Education
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason 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 "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Education
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Education Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Education
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "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) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Education Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Education
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "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, ignorance, g Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Education Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Education
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( 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 The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Education I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Education
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Education A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "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) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Education
