"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Government If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Government
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Government How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Government
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Government Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Government
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 It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Government Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Government
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "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) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Government To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Government
"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) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Government The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Government
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "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) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Government Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Government
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Government It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Government
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Government Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Government
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning 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 In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Government The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Government
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth 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 If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Government Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. 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 Government
