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"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Education Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Education
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Education The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Education
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Education A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Education Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Education
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Education Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Education
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Education blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Education
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Education Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Education If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Education
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) 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 Education If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Education
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "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) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Education You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Education
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Education If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Education
