"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Primary Schools 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 "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Primary Schools
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Primary Schools Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Primary Schools
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Primary Schools What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Primary Schools
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 "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Primary Schools then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Primary Schools
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Primary Schools I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Primary Schools
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Primary Schools "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Primary Schools
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Primary Schools UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Primary Schools
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Primary Schools A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Primary Schools
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Primary Schools "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Primary Schools
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Primary Schools "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "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 Primary Schools
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Primary Schools "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Primary Schools
