Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Education Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Education
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Education
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Education All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Education
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Education 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 Anyway, 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,
ign Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Education
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 A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "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) Education Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Education
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Education "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Education
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Education The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Education
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Education Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Education
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Education A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Education
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Education Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Education Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Education
