Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Primary Schools In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Primary Schools
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Primary Schools There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Primary Schools
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Primary Schools "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Primary Schools
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Primary Schools Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 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 I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Primary Schools
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Primary Schools "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Primary Schools
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Primary Schools "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Primary Schools
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Primary Schools Spinster: A bachelor's wife. I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Primary Schools
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Primary Schools He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Primary Schools
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Primary Schools "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Primary Schools
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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 I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Primary Schools "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Primary Schools
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Primary Schools "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Primary Schools
