We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Secondary Schools Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Secondary Schools
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, 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 Secondary Schools There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Secondary Schools
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Secondary Schools If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Secondary Schools
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Secondary Schools The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Secondary Schools
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Secondary Schools The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Secondary Schools
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Secondary Schools There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Secondary Schools
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Secondary Schools What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Secondary Schools
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Secondary Schools The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Secondary Schools
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Secondary Schools Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Secondary Schools
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Secondary Schools What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Secondary Schools
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "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) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Secondary Schools People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Secondary Schools
