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Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Man and wife make one fool. Disability Resources Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Disability Resources
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Disability Resources "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Disability Resources "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Disability Resources
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Disability Resources Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Disability Resources
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Disability Resources The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Disability Resources
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Disability Resources Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Disability Resources
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Disability Resources You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Disability Resources
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Disability Resources What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Disability Resources
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Disability Resources The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Disability Resources
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Disability Resources But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Disability Resources
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi 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 Disability Resources "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Disability Resources
