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"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Artists and Galleries Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
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The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Artists and Galleries 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 "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Artists and Galleries
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Artists and Galleries 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 Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Artists and Galleries
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Artists and Galleries 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 Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Artists and Galleries
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Artists and Galleries The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Artists and Galleries
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Artists and Galleries Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Artists and Galleries The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Artists and Galleries
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Artists and Galleries I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Artists and Galleries
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. 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 "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Artists and Galleries "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Artists and Galleries
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Artists and Galleries "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo 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 Artists and Galleries
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Artists and Galleries No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Artists and Galleries
