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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Education Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 Education
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) 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 Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Education The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Education
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Education Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Education Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Education
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm 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 The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Education blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Education
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Education Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "... 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) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Education
.. 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 Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Education "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Education She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James 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 He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Education
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Education "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Education
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Education "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Education
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Education I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Education
