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"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl St Christopher School "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun St Christopher School
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard 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 If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. St Christopher School I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal St Christopher School
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw St Christopher School Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, St Christopher School
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? 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 That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt St Christopher School You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster St Christopher School
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli St Christopher School You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) 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 St Christopher School
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume 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 Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) St Christopher School By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) St Christopher School
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason St Christopher School Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) St Christopher School
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life 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 Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein St Christopher School There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. St Christopher School
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) St Christopher School Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "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) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 St Christopher School
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder St Christopher School If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst St Christopher School
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) St Christopher School Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard St Christopher School
