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Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) 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" Education "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Education
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Education Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Education
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Education Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Education
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Education Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Education
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Education He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Education
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Education Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Education
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 Nietzsche We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Education Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Education
"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) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Education I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce 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
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Education "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Education
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Education "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Education
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Education The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
