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The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "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) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Education You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Education
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Education "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Education
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Education Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Education
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Education The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Education
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Education People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Education
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Education The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Education
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Education In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Education
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Education We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop .. 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 Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Education
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "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) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Education Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Education
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "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) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Education "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Education
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Education "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Education
