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The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) 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 Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "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) Education
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Education I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Education
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Education Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Education
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Education Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Education
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Education Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Education
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Education "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Education
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Education In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Education
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Education Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Education
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Education If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Education
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Education Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger 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 Education
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "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) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Education My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Education
