If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Education Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Education
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. 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" Education 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 Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Education If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Education
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Education "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) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Education
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Education Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Education
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Education
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Education Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Education
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Education
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Education When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Education
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Education The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Education
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Education Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Education
