If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Education blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Education
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Education "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Education
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Education Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "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 I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Education "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Education
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Education
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) 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 Education Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Education
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 I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Education A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "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, Alice in Wonderland Education
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Education The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Education
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Education Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Education
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education 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'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 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 Education
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Education When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Education
