Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "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 "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Education
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "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 Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Education
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Education "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Education
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Education We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "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 Education
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Education "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Education
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Education How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Education
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) >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 I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Education "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Education
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "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) Education
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Education And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Education
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Education "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Education
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Education
