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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Education Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Education
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e 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, Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Education "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Education
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. 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 "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "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) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Education "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Education
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Education Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) 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 Education
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Education blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Education
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 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 Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Education
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Education Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Education
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Education Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) 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 It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Education Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Education
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. 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 I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Education "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Education
