Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Y Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Y
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Y "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Y
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem 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 Y "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Y
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Y Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Y
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Y I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Y
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Y Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Y
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Y For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Y
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Y I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Y
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "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 Y 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 The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Y
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Y "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Y
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 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 Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Y Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Y
