"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Education "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Education
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Education One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Education
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) 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 "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Education 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 The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Education
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Education Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Education "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Education
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Education Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Education The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Education
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) 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 If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Education "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Education
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Education Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon 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 Education
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Education Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Education
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Education Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
