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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Brynmawr You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Brynmawr
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Brynmawr Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Brynmawr
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Brynmawr I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Brynmawr
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland 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 The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Brynmawr Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Brynmawr
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Brynmawr Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Brynmawr
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Brynmawr "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Brynmawr
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Brynmawr Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "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 Brynmawr
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Brynmawr We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Brynmawr
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer 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 Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Brynmawr "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W 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. Brynmawr
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Brynmawr "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Brynmawr
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "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) Brynmawr Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Brynmawr
