Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Education The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Education
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Education 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 "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Education
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Education "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Education
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century 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 "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Education Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Education
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Education All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Education
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Education To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Education
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "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) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Education "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Education
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Education No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Education
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Education There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Education
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Education You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Education
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Education Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Education
