[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Education Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Education
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "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 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Education "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 The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Education
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Education "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Education
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Education Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Education
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Education The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Education
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin 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 Education What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Education
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 The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Education The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Education
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Education Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Education People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Education
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "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) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Education Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Education It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Education
