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"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan I have spread my dreams under your feet;
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-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Online News "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) 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 The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Online News
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Online News "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Online News
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) 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 My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Online News "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Online News
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Online News Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Online News
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Online News Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Online News
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Online News "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 The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at 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 Online News
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Online News Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
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-- Judith Viorst Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Online News
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Online News "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Online News
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
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-- Anonymous "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Online News Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Online News
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Online News "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Online News
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
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-- Anonymous The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Online News
