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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Education "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Education
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Education There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Education
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Education May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Education
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Education "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Education
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Education One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Education
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Education Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Education
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Education Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Education
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Education Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Education
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Education "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Education
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "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 "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Education Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Education
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Education Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Education
