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"Think off-center." (George Carlin) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Education Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Education
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Education Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Education "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Education
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Education
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Education There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Education
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Education "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "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) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Education
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Education Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Education
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Education Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Education Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Education
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Education Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) 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 Education
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Education "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane 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 Education
