A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Education "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) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Education
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Education In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Education
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Education Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Education
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Education Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Education
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Education The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Education
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "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 Education We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Education
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. 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 The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Education
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Education "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Education
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? 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 Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Education If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Education
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Education "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Education Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "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 Education
