Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Education I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Education
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Education How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Education
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "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, Education The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Education
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Education Anyway, 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,
ign For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Education
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Education 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
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "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 Education
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Education Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Education
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Education "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Education
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Education Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Education
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Education Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Education
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Education "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Education
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Education "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
