If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Colleges and Universities Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Colleges and Universities "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
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-- Susan Ertz Colleges and Universities
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Colleges and Universities To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
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-- Garry Trudeau Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
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-- George Carlin Colleges and Universities
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Colleges and Universities "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten 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 It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Colleges and Universities
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Colleges and Universities All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Colleges and Universities
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Colleges and Universities A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Colleges and Universities
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) 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 How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Colleges and Universities "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Colleges and Universities
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh 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 Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Colleges and Universities There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
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-- James Holt McGavran And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Colleges and Universities
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant 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 Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Colleges and Universities Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Colleges and Universities
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Colleges and Universities The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
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work and the During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Colleges and Universities
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Colleges and Universities "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
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