There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Primary Schools "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Primary Schools
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Primary Schools "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Primary Schools
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Primary Schools Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Primary Schools
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Primary Schools Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Primary Schools
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Primary Schools The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Primary Schools
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Primary Schools "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon 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 Primary Schools
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Primary Schools I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Primary Schools
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Primary Schools The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Primary Schools
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Primary Schools Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Primary Schools
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Primary Schools I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Primary Schools
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Primary Schools A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Primary Schools
