St Bees School - A 300 year old private co-educational school for boarders and day pupils.
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Education A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Education
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Education Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein 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 We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Education
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Education When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Education
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Education In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Education
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Education "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Education
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Education "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Education
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Education "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Education
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Education
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Education The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Education
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Education In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Education
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Education He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Education
