When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) 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 "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Education Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Education Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Education
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Education Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Education
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Education If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Education
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Education "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Education
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Education There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa 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 We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Education
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Education The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) 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 want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Education Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Education
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Education "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Education
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Education It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Education
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Education There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Education
