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"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Education When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "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 This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Education Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Education No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Education
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Education 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 I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Education
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Education "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Education
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Education I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Education
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Education "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Education
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Education It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Education Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Education
"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) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Education "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Education
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway 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 I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Education 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? Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Education
