Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Education blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Education
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Education Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Education
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Education I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Education
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "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, Alice in Wonderland Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 Education If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Education
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Education blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Education
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt 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 The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Education "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Education
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Education "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch May you never leave your marriage alive. Education
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Education
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Education 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 "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Education
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Education You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Education
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Education A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Education
