Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Education The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Education
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Education "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Education
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Education Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Education
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Education He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Education
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Education Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Education
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Education "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Education
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Education If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Education
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Education Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Education
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Education "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Education
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Education The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Education
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty 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 The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Education Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Education
