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Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Education Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Education
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "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) Education Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Education
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Education It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "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) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Education
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Education Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Education
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Education All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Education
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Education I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Education
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Education "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Education
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Education "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Education
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Education It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Education
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "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) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Education You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Education
"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." "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Education What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Education
