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"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Academies and Foundations "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Academies and Foundations
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Academies and Foundations I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Academies and Foundations
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Academies and Foundations "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Academies and Foundations
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Academies and Foundations A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Academies and Foundations
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Academies and Foundations Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Academies and Foundations
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-- Brendan Hills The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Academies and Foundations I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Academies and Foundations
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Academies and Foundations The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Academies and Foundations
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Academies and Foundations The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Academies and Foundations
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Academies and Foundations Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Academies and Foundations
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 Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Academies and Foundations Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Academies and Foundations
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Academies and Foundations The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Academies and Foundations
