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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh George II Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous George II
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi George II "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone George II
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 To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
George II Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "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." Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche George II
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford George II A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) George II
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "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) George II A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life George II
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) George II I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin George II
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan George II Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton George II
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, George II If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do George II
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) George II The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) George II
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 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. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats George II The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) George II
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. 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 "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart George II Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten George II
