A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Education I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Education
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Education "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Education
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Education Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Education
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Education Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Education
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Education Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Education
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Education Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Education
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) 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 cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Education
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Education Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Education
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Education Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Education
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Man and wife make one fool. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Education Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Education
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Education I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Education
