"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Education Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Education
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Education "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Education
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Education Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Education
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Education Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Education
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Education When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Education
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Education Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Education
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 We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Education Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Education
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Education "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Education
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Education To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Education
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Education 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 have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Education We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Education
