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He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Education Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Education
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Education For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Education
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Education When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "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, ignorance, g Education
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Education Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Education
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Education Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Education
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Education I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Education
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Education Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels 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 Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Education
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Education The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "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) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Education "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) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Education
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Education "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) 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 Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Education
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 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 "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Education Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Education
