I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Education I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Education
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Education At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Education "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Education
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Education
May you never leave your marriage alive. "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Education 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 Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Education
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Education Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Education
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Education And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Education
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Education America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Education
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Education "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Education
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Education It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Education
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Education One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Education
