May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Education When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Education
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Education 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 "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Education
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Education The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. 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 Education
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Education Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Education
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 There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Education "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Education
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 Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Education "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Education
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Education
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Education Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Education
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous 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 blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Education When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Education
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Education
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Education Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Education
