Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Education
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Education "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Education
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Education "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Education
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting 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 "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Education When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Education
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Education "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Education
"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' I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Education "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Education
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) 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 War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Education The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really 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 "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Education
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Education A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Education
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert 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.
-- Anonymous "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Education
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Education I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Education
"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 I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Education "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "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
