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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 When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
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- Sir Winston Churchill Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner National Association of Headteachers
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) National Association of Headteachers Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick 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
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You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. National Association of Headteachers I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard 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 National Association of Headteachers Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin National Association of Headteachers
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy National Association of Headteachers A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) National Association of Headteachers
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) National Association of Headteachers Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 National Association of Headteachers
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) National Association of Headteachers In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
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"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi National Association of Headteachers Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson National Association of Headteachers
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) National Association of Headteachers "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
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We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein National Association of Headteachers The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 National Association of Headteachers
