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"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Education My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Education
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Education I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Education
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "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 If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Education Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Education
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Education Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Education
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Education The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Education
"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Education Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Education
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) 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 Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Education You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Education
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Education Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Education "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Education
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Education I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Education
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Education When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Education
