And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort 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) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Education
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Education Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Education
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Education 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 "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Man and wife make one fool. Education Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Education
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Education "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Education
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Education Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Education
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Education True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Education
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Education Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Education
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Education "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) 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 The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Education
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Education "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Education
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Education "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Anyway, 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,
ign For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Education
