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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "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) "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 Education A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Education
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Education All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Education
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Education When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe 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 Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Education
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Education "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Education
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Education Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Education
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Education Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Education
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Education "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Education
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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." Education Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Education
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Education 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 Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Education
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Education The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Education
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Education When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Education
