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"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Chats and Forums In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Chats and Forums
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Chats and Forums I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Chats and Forums
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. 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 Chats and Forums "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Chats and Forums
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Chats and Forums "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "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') "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Chats and Forums
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Chats and Forums Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Chats and Forums
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Chats and Forums It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Chats and Forums
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "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 "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Chats and Forums If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Chats and Forums
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Chats and Forums Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Chats and Forums
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "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) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Chats and Forums Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Chats and Forums
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Chats and Forums 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 "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Chats and Forums
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Chats and Forums "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Chats and Forums
