"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Education Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Education
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Education If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign 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 "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Education
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "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 Education Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Education
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker 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 nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Education Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "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
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Education
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Education The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Education
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Education During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Education
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Education "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Education
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Education Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
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