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"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Education "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Education
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Education "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Education
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide 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 We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley 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 Education Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Education
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Education The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Education Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Education
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Education "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Education
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Education The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Education
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Education When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Education
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Education Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana 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 Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Education
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Education "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Education
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Education "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
