I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Colleges and Universities She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James 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 He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Colleges and Universities
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Colleges and Universities Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Colleges and Universities
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Colleges and Universities Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Colleges and Universities
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Colleges and Universities blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Colleges and Universities
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Colleges and Universities "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Colleges and Universities
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Colleges and Universities "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Colleges and Universities
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "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 Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Colleges and Universities I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Colleges and Universities
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion 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 "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Colleges and Universities "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Colleges and Universities
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Colleges and Universities They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Colleges and Universities
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Colleges and Universities I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Colleges and Universities
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Colleges and Universities Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Colleges and Universities
