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A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Education At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Education
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Education Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Education
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Education "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Education
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "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 "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Education The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Education
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) 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 Education "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Education
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Education "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Education
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Education Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Education
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons 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" Education The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Education
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Education "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Education
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Education "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Education
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "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) Education If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Education
