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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) 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 Secondary Schools I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Secondary Schools
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Secondary Schools "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Secondary Schools
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Secondary Schools Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Secondary Schools
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Secondary Schools "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Secondary Schools
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Secondary Schools My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Secondary Schools
"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 Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Secondary Schools Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Secondary Schools
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Secondary Schools A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Secondary Schools
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Secondary Schools Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Secondary Schools
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Secondary Schools Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Secondary Schools
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Secondary Schools "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Secondary Schools
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Secondary Schools Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Secondary Schools
