"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th E Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) E
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 E Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) E
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th E You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) E
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) E History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) E
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) E I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) E
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau E All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker E
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress E Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around 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 "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) E
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright E Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) E
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson E Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) E
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant E The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little E
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 E "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude 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 E
