I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Education The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Education
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Education Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Education
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Education Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Education
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Education It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Education
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Education "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Education
"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 Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Education Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Education
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Education Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Education There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Education
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Education "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Education
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Education Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Education
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Education It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Sřren Kierkegaard Education
