Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Education The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Education
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Education "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Education
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Education The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Education
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) 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 The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Education The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Education
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Education "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Education
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Education The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Education
"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 Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Education I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Education
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous 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 We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Education "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Education
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Education We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Education
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Education "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Education
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Education
