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"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Education Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Education
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Education The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Education
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity May you never leave your marriage alive. "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken 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 "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Education
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "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) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Education Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Education
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "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) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Education You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Education
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Education If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Education
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Education Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Education
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Education "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Education
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Education The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Education
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Education "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Education
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Education The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Education
