"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Education The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Education
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) 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 Education When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Education
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "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) Education "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Education
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Education 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 If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Education
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Education "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Education
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Education "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Education
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Education Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Education
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Education The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Education
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "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) Education 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 Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Education
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Education The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Education
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Education "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Education
