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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Disability Resources The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Disability Resources
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Disability Resources In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Disability Resources
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Disability Resources "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Disability Resources
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Disability Resources "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Disability Resources
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Disability Resources If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
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-- Ernest Rutherford Disability Resources
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Disability Resources A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Disability Resources
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Disability Resources Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Disability Resources
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Disability Resources Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Disability Resources
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Disability Resources "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) 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 Disability Resources
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Disability Resources blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Disability Resources
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Disability Resources Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Disability Resources
