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Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Education "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Education
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings 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. Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Education The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder 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 My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Education In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Education
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Education Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Education
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Education Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Education
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Education
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Education 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 "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) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Education
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France 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 Education
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra 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 Education There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Education
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Education Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "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 More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Education
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Education This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Education
