"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Education The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Education
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Education Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Education
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Education The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Education
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley My other wife is beautiful. If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Education
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Education When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Education
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) 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 "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Education Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Education
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Education If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
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blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Education Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Education
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Education
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Education
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Education The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Education
