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"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Health A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Health
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "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) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Health Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Health
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Health Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Health
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Health For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Health
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Health "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Health
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 "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Health Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Health
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Health "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Health
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Health Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Health
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Health Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Health
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 The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Health My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Health
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Health ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Health
