The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Education blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Education
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Education When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Education
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Education When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Education
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "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 For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Education Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Education
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Education Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Education
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 Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Education It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Education
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Education Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Education
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Education If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Education
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "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 "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Education The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Education
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Education Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Education
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Education I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Education
