Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "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) Wetwang One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Wetwang
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Wetwang Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Wetwang
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Wetwang Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Wetwang
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Wetwang 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 Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Wetwang
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Wetwang "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Wetwang
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Wetwang Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Wetwang
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Wetwang Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Wetwang
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Wetwang We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wetwang
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Wetwang The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Wetwang
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Wetwang blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Wetwang
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer 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 The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Wetwang Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Wetwang
