What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Education Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Education
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Education "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Education
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Education A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Education
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Education
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Education 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) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Education
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Education He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Education
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Education To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Education
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Education Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Education
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Education Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Education
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Education When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Education
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Education "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Education
