"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Education A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Education
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "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) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Education
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Education Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Education
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill 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 Education The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Education
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Education "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Education
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Education The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Education
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "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) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Education "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) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Education
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Education Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Education
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Education I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Education
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Education A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Education
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Education "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) 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 I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Education
