Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Man and wife make one fool. "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Health Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Health
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" 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 We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Health Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Health
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Health Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Health Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Health
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Health "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Health
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Health I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Health
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Health Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Health
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Health In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Health
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Health Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Health
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Health
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Health "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Health
