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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Education This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Education
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Education A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Education
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 "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Education "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Education I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Education
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin 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 There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Education
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Education "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Education
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Education I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Education
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Education Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Education
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody 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.
-- Anonymous Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Education There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Education
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Education "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Education
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Education "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Education
