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A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Education Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Education
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Education "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Education
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Education "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Education
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Education Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Education
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "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) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Education Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
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-- Rene Descartes Education 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" Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Education
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Education
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Education I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Education
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "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 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Education America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau 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 "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Education
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas 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 When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Education
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Education "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Education
