"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Education "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Education
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Education Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "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) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Education
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Education "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Education
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Education "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Education
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Education The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Education When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Education
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Education
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "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 When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Education "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Education
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Education Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Education
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Education Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Education Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Education
