When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Parties A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Parties
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Parties "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Parties
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Parties "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) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Parties
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "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 "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Parties "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Parties
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 belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "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) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Parties All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Parties
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Parties "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) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Parties
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "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) Parties "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Parties
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar May you never leave your marriage alive. I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Parties Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Parties
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Parties "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Parties
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Parties Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Parties
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Parties "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." Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Parties
