Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Education All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein 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 When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Education Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Education
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Education An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Education
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Education Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Education
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Education
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Education The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Education
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Education We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Education
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Education Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Education Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Education
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Education
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Education ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Education
