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I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Education The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Education
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Education If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Education To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Education
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Education Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Education
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Education Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Education
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan 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 Education The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Education
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Education
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Education If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Education
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Education "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "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) Education
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Education "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Education
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Education It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Education
