He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Education May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Education
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Education The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Education
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Education The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Education
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Education Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Education
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Education Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Education
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Education "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Education
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers 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 Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Education Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Education
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Education "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Education
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Education >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 "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Education
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Education There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Education
"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 You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Education "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Education
