The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Education I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Education
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Education Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Education
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Education I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Education
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 "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Education "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Education
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Education "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Education
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Education Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Education
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Education "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim 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 What's new? Most of my wife. Education If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Education
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Education
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Education "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Education "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
