"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) By Region 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" blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) By Region
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) By Region Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") By Region
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle By Region Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles By Region
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) By Region Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky By Region
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire By Region "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton By Region
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) By Region I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain By Region
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w By Region Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine By Region
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it By Region Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) By Region
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 "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) By Region "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein By Region
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde By Region "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken By Region
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) By Region Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) By Region
