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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Oakworth And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Oakworth
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 Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Oakworth Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Oakworth
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie >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 "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Oakworth There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Oakworth
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "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 Oakworth Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Oakworth
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Oakworth If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Oakworth
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Oakworth Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Oakworth
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Oakworth Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Oakworth
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 "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Oakworth Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Oakworth
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Oakworth "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 Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Oakworth
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Oakworth LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Oakworth
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Oakworth Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words 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 Oakworth
