"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Education "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Education
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Education The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Education
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Education You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Education
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Education "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Education
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Education The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Education
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Education Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Education
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Education Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Education
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Education "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Education
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Education
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Education "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Education
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Education
