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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Education ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Education
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Education Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Education
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Education Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Education
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Education Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Education
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Education The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Education Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Education
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Education "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "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) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Education
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Education Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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 Education
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Education The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Education
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Education Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Education "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Education
