A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Education The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Education
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Education He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Education
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Education "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Education
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Education 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 Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Education
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Education 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. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Education
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Education "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. 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 Education
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Education Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West 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 I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Education
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Education Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Education I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Education
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Education Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Education
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Education Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Education
