We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
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--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" 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.
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-- William Yeats Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Secondary Schools "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Secondary Schools
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
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-- Albert Einstein The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
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-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Secondary Schools Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
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-- Rich Little Secondary Schools
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
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-- Alphonse Karr Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Secondary Schools "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
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-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Secondary Schools
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
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"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
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-- James Thurber All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker Secondary Schools "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
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I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Secondary Schools Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Secondary Schools
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
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-- Emiliano Zapata Secondary Schools A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
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of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Secondary Schools
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
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increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
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but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Secondary Schools
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke Secondary Schools "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Secondary Schools
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Secondary Schools Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
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