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"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Education "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Education
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Education "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Education
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to 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 We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Education The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery 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 No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Education
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Education "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Education Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson 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) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Education I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Education
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant 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 "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Education The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Education
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Education "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Education
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Education To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Education
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Education "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Education
