"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) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb By Region A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen By Region
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. By Region I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous By Region
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb By Region "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana By Region
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert By Region "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov By Region
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. By Region "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous By Region
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "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) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright By Region If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley By Region
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) By Region 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 "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry By Region
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi 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 By Region Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "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) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills By Region
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins By Region People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By Region
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards By Region "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) By Region
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e By Region 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 Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen By Region
