"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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. Education You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Education
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Education "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Education
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Education The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Education
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Education Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Education
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Education Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings 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 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 Education
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Education Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Education
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Education If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Education
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Education We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Education Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Education
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Education People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Education
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Education "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Education
