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-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Education The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Education
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley 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 We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Education "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Education
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Education If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Education Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Education
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Education Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Education
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Education Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "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) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Education
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Education Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Education
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Education Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "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
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Education Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Education
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Education Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Education
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Education For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
