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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 "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "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) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Education "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Education
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 Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Education Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Education
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Education Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Education
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Education To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca 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
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Education There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Education
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Education 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 Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Education
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Education You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Education
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Education A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Education
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Education A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Education
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Education Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Education
"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 Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Education A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education
