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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Colleges and Universities Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Colleges and Universities
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Colleges and Universities We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Colleges and Universities
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Colleges and Universities Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Colleges and Universities America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Colleges and Universities
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Colleges and Universities He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
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In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Colleges and Universities I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Colleges and Universities
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Colleges and Universities Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Colleges and Universities
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 "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Colleges and Universities One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) 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 Colleges and Universities
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Colleges and Universities Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine 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 The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Colleges and Universities
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Colleges and Universities "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Colleges and Universities
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "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) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Colleges and Universities If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Colleges and Universities
