Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife U Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) U
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "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) U A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln U
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber U You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per U
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) U Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde U
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) U Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht U
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) U It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X U
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) U "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow U
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis U This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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) U
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) U "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words U
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor U "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes 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 U
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) U "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) 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 You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi U
