Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Education I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Education
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Education Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Education Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Education
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time 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 Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Education blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Education
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Education Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Education
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Education Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Education
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Education If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Education
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Education "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Education
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Education I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Education
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Education Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Education
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Education There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Education
