"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Education Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Education "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Education
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Education I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner 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 "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Education
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Education Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) 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 Education
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 "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Education Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Education
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Education "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Education
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Education 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 A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Education
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Education The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Education
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Education The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill 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 My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Education
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Education Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Education
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Education "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Education
