"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Society and Culture Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert 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
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"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Society and Culture
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture 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. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Society and Culture
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) 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 The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Society and Culture
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Society and Culture The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Society and Culture
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Society and Culture There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Society and Culture
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Society and Culture With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner 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 Society and Culture
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Society and Culture An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Society and Culture
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Society and Culture "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Society and Culture
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Society and Culture "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Society and Culture
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Society and Culture A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
