"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Transport I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Transport
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Transport "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) 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 Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Transport
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Transport If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transport
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 Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Transport "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Transport
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Transport "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Transport
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Transport None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Transport
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Transport "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Transport
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Transport You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Transport
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Transport He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Transport
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Transport If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Transport
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Transport Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Transport
