When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Education Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Education "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last 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 Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Education "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Education
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Education "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Education
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 Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Education "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Education
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Education Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Education
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Education The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Education
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Education We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Education
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Education Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Education
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Education Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Education
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic 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 In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Education The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Education