"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Education Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Education
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) 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 Education University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Education
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "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 Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Education God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Education
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Education Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Education
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Education A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Education "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Education
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "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 The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Education Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Education
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) 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 Unhappy "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Education "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Education
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Education To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Education
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "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
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Education Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) 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 Education
