"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Reunions and Alumni An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Reunions and Alumni
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.
- Buckminster Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Reunions and Alumni A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Reunions and Alumni
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Reunions and Alumni You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Reunions and Alumni
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Reunions and Alumni Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Reunions and Alumni
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Reunions and Alumni "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Reunions and Alumni
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Reunions and Alumni Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Reunions and Alumni
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Reunions and Alumni In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Reunions and Alumni
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Reunions and Alumni The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Reunions and Alumni
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre 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. We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Reunions and Alumni You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Reunions and Alumni
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Reunions and Alumni If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Reunions and Alumni
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Reunions and Alumni Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Reunions and Alumni
