Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Cricket "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) 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 All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Cricket
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Cricket What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Cricket
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Cricket Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cricket
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) 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, I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Cricket Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cricket
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Cricket There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Cricket
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Cricket "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Cricket
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks 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 Cricket Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Cricket
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Cricket 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" The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Cricket
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Cricket "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Cricket
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Cricket Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Cricket
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Cricket The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Cricket
