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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Education With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Education
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Education "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Education
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Education Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Education
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Education "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Education
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Education Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Education
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Education Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Education
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Education He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Education
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Education Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Education
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm 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 Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Education The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Education
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Education The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Education Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Education
