Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Education "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Education
"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) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Education "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Education Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Education
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Education Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Education
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer 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 Education Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Education
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Education Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Education
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Education "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Education
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Education If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Education
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Education May you never leave your marriage alive. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Education
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "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) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Education "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Education
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Education People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Education
