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The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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 Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Education
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Education The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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) Education
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Education Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Education
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington 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 Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Education "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Education
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. 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 Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) 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 Education
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) 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 Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Education
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 Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Education That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Education
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words 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 If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Education
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Education The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Education The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Education
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
