"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Education
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Education "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Education
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Education Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Education
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Education At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Education
"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, ignorance, g The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Education "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Education
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Education The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Education
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Education It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Education
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Education The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Education Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Education "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Education
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Education "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Education
