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"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) 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 Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Education "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Education
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Education In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Education
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that 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 The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Education "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Education
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Education We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Education
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show 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 "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Education
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Education "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Education
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Education Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Education
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Education 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" Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Education
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Education Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Education Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "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) Education
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Education It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
