If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Arts and Entertainment
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Arts and Entertainment "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) 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 Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Arts and Entertainment "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "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) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Arts and Entertainment
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Arts and Entertainment You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers 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, Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Arts and Entertainment "... 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) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it 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 Arts and Entertainment
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Arts and Entertainment "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Arts and Entertainment
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "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) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Man and wife make one fool. Arts and Entertainment There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Arts and Entertainment
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Arts and Entertainment You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Arts and Entertainment
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Arts and Entertainment In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Arts and Entertainment
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Arts and Entertainment "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Arts and Entertainment
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Arts and Entertainment
