A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Education Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Education
"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Education Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Education
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Education "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 Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Education You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Education
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Education "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Education
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Education In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Education
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Education I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Education
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Education Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Education
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Education
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman 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 "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Education In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Education
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Education "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Education
