"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Education In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Education
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Education "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "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) Education
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Education I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Education
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Education A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Education
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Education Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Education
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Education There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Education
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Education
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Education I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Education
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Education "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Education
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca 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 Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Education A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "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) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Education
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Education "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Education
