If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Education If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Education
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Education "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Education
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Education Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Education
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Education Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Education
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Education "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Education
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Education Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Education
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Education I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Education
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Education Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Education
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Education "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Education
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Education "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Education
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Education I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Education
