For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "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, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Education "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Education
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Education Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Education
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Education 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 Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? 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 man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Education Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Education
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Education He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Education
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Education "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) 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 "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Education "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Education
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Education "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Education
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Education "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
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 Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Education The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Education
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Education "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Education
