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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Education The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Education
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Education "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
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Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Education The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Education
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Education It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Education
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim 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 Education I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Education
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Education I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Education
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Education Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "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) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Education
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Education your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Education
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Education There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill Education
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Education It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Education
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "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) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Education By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
