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"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "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 How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Education I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Education
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Education If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous 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 In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Education
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain 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 With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Education Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Education
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Education Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Education
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Education "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Education
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Education A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Education
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous 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 Education Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Education
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Education "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) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Education It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Education
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Education "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Education
