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"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Education The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Education
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Education Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Education
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Education Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Education
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Education "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Education "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Education
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Education Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Education
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Education "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Education
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Education I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Education
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Education If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Education
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Education In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Education
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Education Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Marriage is a rest period between romances. "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Education
