Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Education It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Education
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Education A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "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
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Education 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 All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Education
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Education What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein 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) Education
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Education "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Education
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Education Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Education
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Education "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Education
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 Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Education I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Education
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Education The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Education
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Education Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Education
