The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Bearsted There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Bearsted
Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Bearsted We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Bearsted
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 "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Bearsted If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Bearsted
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "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 Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Bearsted This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bearsted
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Bearsted All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) 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 Bearsted
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Bearsted Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Bearsted
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "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) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Bearsted "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Bearsted
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Bearsted The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Bearsted
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Bearsted Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Bearsted
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Bearsted Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "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) Bearsted
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Bearsted "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Bearsted
