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your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Education Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Education "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Education
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Education "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Education
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Education The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Education
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
ha No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Education If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Education
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Education Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Education
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon 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 In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "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) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Education When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Education
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Education Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Education
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Education
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Education In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Education
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Education Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Education
