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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Afro-Caribbean There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Afro-Caribbean
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Afro-Caribbean Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Afro-Caribbean
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis 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 "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Afro-Caribbean "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Afro-Caribbean
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Afro-Caribbean A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire 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 Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Afro-Caribbean
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Afro-Caribbean It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Afro-Caribbean
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Afro-Caribbean 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 When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Afro-Caribbean
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Afro-Caribbean "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Afro-Caribbean
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Afro-Caribbean You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Afro-Caribbean
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Afro-Caribbean "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Afro-Caribbean
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Afro-Caribbean Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Afro-Caribbean
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Afro-Caribbean We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Afro-Caribbean
