What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Education Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Education
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) 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 Education Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Education
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Education Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Education
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Education "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Education
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Education I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Education
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Education "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Education
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Education "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Education
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Education Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Education
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Education It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Education
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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" "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Education "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Education
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Education Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Education
