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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Education Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Education
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Education "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Education
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Education Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Education
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Education In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Education
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Education This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole 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 Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Education
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Education There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Education
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Education If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Education
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Education Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Education
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) 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 "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Education The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Education
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Education The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Education People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's 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 Education
