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"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Rainford "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Rainford
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Rainford "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Rainford
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Rainford Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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) Rainford
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Rainford This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Rainford
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reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Rainford CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Rainford
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle 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 Rainford "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Rainford
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Rainford An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Rainford
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Rainford "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Rainford
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Rainford "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Rainford
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Rainford Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Rainford
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Rainford "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Rainford
