For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Education Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Education
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Education In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Marriage is a rest period between romances. "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) Education
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Education We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Education
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Education Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Education
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Education Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Education
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Education
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Education "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus 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 Education
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Education
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is a rest period between romances. We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Education The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Education 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 When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Education
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Education "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Education
