All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Education "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Education
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Education Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "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) Education A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Education
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Education Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Education
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Education 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 Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Education
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Education Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Education
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Education A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Education
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Education Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Education
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Education 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 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Education
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Education Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Education
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Education However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Education
