One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Languages Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Languages
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Languages "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Languages
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) 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 Languages Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Languages
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Languages "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Languages
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Languages To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Languages
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Languages I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "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) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Languages
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Languages I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Languages
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Languages I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Languages
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Languages 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 Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Languages
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Languages The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Languages
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Languages 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 Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Languages
