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A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Education Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Education
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Education See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Education
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Education blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Education You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Education
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Education In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Education
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Education 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 The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Education 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 What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford 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 Education "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Education
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died 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 "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Education
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Education Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Education
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "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 Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Education A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
