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When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Education All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Education
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Education "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Education
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Education Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Education
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Education Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Education
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Education "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Education
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "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) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Education
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Education Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Education
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Education "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Education
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Education Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( 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 blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Education
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Education
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Education A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
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-- Rory Bremner Education
