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Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Education
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Education It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Education
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Education The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Education
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Education >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx 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 I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Education
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Education What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Education
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Education "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Education
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "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 Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Education If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Education
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Education The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw 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 Education
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Education Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Education It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Education
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Education The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education
