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If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Education The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Education
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Education A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller 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 Education
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Education One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) 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 Education
"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Education We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Education
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 Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "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 He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Education Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Education All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Education
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Education Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Education
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Education The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Education
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Education In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Education
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Education Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Education
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Education That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Education
