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Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Education The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Education
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 The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner 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 Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Education
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Education Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Education
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Education Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Education
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Education "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Education
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Education The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Education
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Education I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Education
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Education I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Education
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Education "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 What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Education
blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "'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, Through the Looking Glass) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Education Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Education
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Education I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) 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 Education
