Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Education Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Education
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Education Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Education
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Education We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Education
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Education A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Education
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Education Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Education
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Education Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Education
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Education You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Education
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "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) Education Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott 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 Education
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- 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 Education Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Education
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Education "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Education Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
