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"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Education "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Education
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Education
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Education What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Education Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Education
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Education "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 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Education
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Education There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Education
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Education "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Education
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Education The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Education
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Education Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Education
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Education If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Education
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Education I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Education
