"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Education The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "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) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Education
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Education Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Education
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Education "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Education
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Education Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Education
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Education Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Education
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Education
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Education I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Education
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Education If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Education
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Education Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Education
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Education Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Education
