It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Primary Schools We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Primary Schools
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Primary Schools Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Primary Schools
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry 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, Primary Schools Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Primary Schools
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Primary Schools There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Primary Schools
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Primary Schools The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Primary Schools
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
[text_start]
"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Primary Schools "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Primary Schools
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Primary Schools There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Primary Schools
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Primary Schools How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Primary Schools
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Primary Schools The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Primary Schools
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 "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Primary Schools "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Primary Schools
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Primary Schools The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Primary Schools
