It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Education "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) 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 "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Education
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Education Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Education
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Education There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Education
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Education "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Education
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Education A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Education
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Education Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Education
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Education I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Education
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Education Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Education
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Education Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Education
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Education Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Education
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Education Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Education
