"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Education We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Education
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Education Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Education
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Education I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton 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 "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Education
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Education Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Education Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Education
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) 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 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Education Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Education
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Education I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Education
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Education
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Education "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Education
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Education "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
