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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Primary Schools "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Primary Schools
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Primary Schools 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 If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Primary Schools
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Primary Schools Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Primary Schools
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Primary Schools "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Primary Schools
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Primary Schools If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Primary Schools
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Primary Schools "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Primary Schools
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Primary Schools Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Primary Schools
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Primary Schools I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Primary Schools
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Primary Schools Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Primary Schools
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Primary Schools Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Primary Schools
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "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) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Primary Schools I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Primary Schools
