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Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Education
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Education Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Education
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Education The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Education
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Education Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Education
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Education A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Education
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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.
-- Winston Churchill Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Education 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 Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Education
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Education "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Education
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Education "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Education
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Education A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost May you never leave your marriage alive. Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Education
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Education No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Education
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Education Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Education
