"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "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 Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Education The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Education "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Education
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer 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 Education All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Education
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Education Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Education
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Education
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "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) 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 You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Education Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Education
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Education
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Education Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Education
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Education "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Education
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Education Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Education
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Education "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (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 Education
