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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Education Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Education We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Education
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Education In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Education
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Education Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Education If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Education
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Education Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Education
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Education If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Education Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Education
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius 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 Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Education Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Education
"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Education Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Education
