"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Education Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Education
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Education "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Education
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Education Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Education
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Education There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Education
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Marriage is a rest period between romances. "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Education "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Education
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Education If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Education
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Education What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Education
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Education Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Education
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Education Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Education
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Education
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "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) Education "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Education
