Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Education blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Education
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Education
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Education Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Education "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Education
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "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 Education Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Education
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Education blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Education
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Education "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Education
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Education Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Education
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Education
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Education Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Education
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Education You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Education
