Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Events 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 Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Events
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Events When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Events
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Events Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Events
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Events Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Events
"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) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides 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 Events He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Events
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Events "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Events
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Events Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Events
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Events If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Events
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Events "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Events
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Events To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Events
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Events The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Events
