Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Specialised Instruction A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Specialised Instruction
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Specialised Instruction "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Specialised Instruction
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Specialised Instruction "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Specialised Instruction
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Specialised Instruction "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Specialised Instruction
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Specialised Instruction The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Specialised Instruction
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Specialised Instruction "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Specialised Instruction
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot 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 Specialised Instruction The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Specialised Instruction
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Specialised Instruction blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Specialised Instruction
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Specialised Instruction Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Specialised Instruction
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Specialised Instruction Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous 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 By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Specialised Instruction
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "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) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Specialised Instruction "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Specialised Instruction
