The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Education blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Education
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) Education Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Education
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder 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 Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Education We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Education
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Education Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Education
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. 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 If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Education "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Education
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Education "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Education
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Education "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Education
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Education
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Education The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Education
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Education My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Education
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Education
