Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck 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 Education All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Education
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Education "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Education
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) 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 Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Education "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." The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Education And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Education Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Education
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV 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 I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Education No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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 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 Education There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Education
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) 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 Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch 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 Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Education Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Education
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Education Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Education
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Education A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Education