Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Education "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Education
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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 Education Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Education
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Education If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Education
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Education People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "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 Education Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Education
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Education I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Education
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Education "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Education
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Education Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Education
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Education Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Education
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Education Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Education
