Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Education Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Education
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) 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 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Education The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Education This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Education
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Education "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Education
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Education If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Education
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Education Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Education
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Education A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Education
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 As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice 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 If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Education If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Education I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Education
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Education When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Education
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Education The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Education
