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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 It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Bowburn "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Bowburn
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Bowburn When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Bowburn
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach 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 Bowburn "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li 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 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Bowburn
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Bowburn The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Bowburn
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Bowburn May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Bowburn
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Bowburn Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Bowburn
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Bowburn A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along 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 Bowburn
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Bowburn In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Bowburn
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Bowburn Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Bowburn
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Bowburn We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Bowburn
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan 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" Bowburn 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 If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Bowburn
