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"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Education Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Education
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Education
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Education And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Education
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Education Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "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 Education
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Education Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Education
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Education I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Education
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Education "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Education
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Education I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Education
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Education "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Education
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz 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 Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
"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) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Education Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Education
