The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Education Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins 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
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Education Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Education
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Education "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Education
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Education A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Education
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Education Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Education
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Education Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Education
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Education Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Education
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 When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Education "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Education
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green 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 If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Education Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Education
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Education
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Education You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Education
