Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Melitopol "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Melitopol
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Melitopol "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Melitopol
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Melitopol "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Melitopol
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Melitopol "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Melitopol
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Melitopol The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Melitopol
My other wife is beautiful. And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Melitopol I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Melitopol
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Melitopol A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "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) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Melitopol
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Melitopol Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Melitopol
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Melitopol How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Melitopol
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Melitopol Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Melitopol
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Melitopol We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Melitopol
