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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Education
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Education The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Education
Man and wife make one fool. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Education Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Education
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Education The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw 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 I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Education
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Education Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Education
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Education America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Education
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Education Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Education
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Education Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Education
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Education If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Education
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Education If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Education
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Education He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
