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"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Government "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Government
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) 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 Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Government "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Government
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Government I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Government
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 "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Government I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Government
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Government Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Government
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Government Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Government
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Government "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Government
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Government 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 Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Government
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Government Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Government
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Government The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Government
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Government Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Government
