More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Education If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards 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 And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Education
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Education That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Education
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Education We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Education
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Education Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Education
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Education 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 Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Education "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Education
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Education "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Education
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Education Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Education
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter 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 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 Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Education 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 "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Education
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Education Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Education
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Education ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Education
