Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) 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 "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Education An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Education
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost 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 The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Education My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Education
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Education The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Education
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Education
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Education 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 "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) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Education
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Education "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Education
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Education "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Education
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) 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 Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Education "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Education
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Education "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Education After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Education
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Education A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
