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I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Education Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Education
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Education Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Education
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Education "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Education
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Education If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Education
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Education Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Education
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Education Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Education
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Education Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Education Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Education
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Education Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Education
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Education
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Education You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
