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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaďs Nin Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Education Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Education
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Education Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Education
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Education "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Education
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 Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Education "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Education
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn 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 Education Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Education
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Education
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Education Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Education
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Education Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Education
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Education We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Education
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Education The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Education
