"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Education "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Education
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Education I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Education
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Education For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Education
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Education Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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 mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Education
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 She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Education "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Education
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 When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Education I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Education
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Education They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Education
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Education 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 I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Education
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign 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 "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Education Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Education
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw 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 Education Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Education
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Education I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Education
