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"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Education "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 If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Education
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Education A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Education
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Education More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Education He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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 At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Education
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Education Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Education
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Education I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "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) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Education
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Education Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Education
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "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 Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer 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 "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Education All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "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 Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Education
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Education The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Education We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Education
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Education If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Education
