If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Education During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Education Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Education
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur 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 No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Education blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Education
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Education
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Education Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Education
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Education Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Education
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous 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 Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Education As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Education
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Education "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) 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) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Education Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Education
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Education We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Education
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Education "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Education
