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Death and Time | "Did I say that?"
- Cradle Song:
May you never know fear.
May you love with a full heart
The light burn in your eyes.
May the fire be your friend
And the sea rock you gently.
May the moon light your way
Till the wind sets you free
- Shriekback - Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
Will Rogers - Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.
Robert Benchley - A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five.
Groucho Marx - Education is a social process . . . Education is growth. Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey - I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain - Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham - I like children. Properly cooked.
W.C. Fields - He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo - Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Brooks Adams - Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde - Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
- When silence speaks for love, she has much to say.
Richard Garnett- Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
And therefore is wing'd cupid painted blind.
Nor hath love's mind of any judgement taste.
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
And therefore is love said to be a child.
Because, in choice, he is so oft beguiled.
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare- Marriage is somewhat like undertaking a Lego project without instructions.
Ammunni Bala Subramanian- To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Jorge Luis Borges- It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
La Rochefoucauld- Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King- Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno- Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire- I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
in Whining poetry.
John Donne- The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Shakespeare (Hamlet)
- We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to. And we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
Senator William Fullbright- An athiest is a man with no invisible means of support.
John Buchan- Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm.
Frank Dane- We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken- My country, wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.
anonymous- I expect to start fighting until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice.
Senator Russell Long- Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H.L. Mencken- Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
Mohammed Neguib- A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
J.Pierpoint Morgan- The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
P.J. O'Rourke- Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.
Timothy Jones
- I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson- When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
From "Basic Sex Facts For Today's Youngfolk" by Matt Groening- Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik Tikkanen- I love it when people type in the wrong window. Nothing like finding out who is cybering who.
faithful- I don't do this for my health, you understand. I do it for the pain. I LOVE the pain!
Proffesor Hugh Young- It isn't premarital sex if you don't get married.
Michael Juster- When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.
Stewart Brand- Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.
Woody Allen- Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
- Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin- To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
Ralph Waldo Emmerson- All the wanted of me were head shots. That certainly seemed strange. Nobody's ever paid attention to my face before.
Gypsy Rose Lee- Ambition is such a powerful passion in the human breast, that however high we reach, we are never satisfied.
Machiavelli- Say what you have to say, not what you ought.
Henry David Thoreau- Everything that decieves may be said to enchant.
Plato- Often the best way to win is to forget to keep score.
Marianne Espinosa Murphy- A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.
Colin Powell- The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.
Harold Coffin- Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.
The Land Before Time- If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have been made with one ear and two mouths.
ancient proverb- Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Fletcher Knebel- If you drink like a fish, don't drive. Swim.
Joe E. Lewis- The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell- Once, during prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields- A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it rains.
Robert Frost- A pessimist is one who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard- Hope is but a waking dream.
Aristotle- There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Dorothy Parker- Don't suck.
College Forensics Proverb
- I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles- The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.
Eric Hoffer- I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein- Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
Goya- Q: How many journalists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Three. One to report it as an inspired government program to bring light to the people, one to report it as a diabolical government plot to deprive the poor of darkness, and one to win a pulitzer prize for reporting that Electric Company hired a lightbulb assassin to break the bulb in the first place.
Ed Mahon- Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso- Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.
Jules Feiffer- [Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp- Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa- That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
John A. Locke- A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.
Anton Chekhov- True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist
Albert Einstein- The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Auguste Rodin- How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau- Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.
Isak Dineson, "Babette's Feast"- Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
Renoir- Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde- The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Auguste Rodin- By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated in language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal processes. As an essentially verbal education gains control, the child abandons his graphic efforts and relies almost entirely on words. Language has first spoilt drawing and then swallowed it up completely.
Karl Buhler
- It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Arnold Bennett- I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Robert Brault- If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.
- My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
Dame Edna Everage- What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle- Do not be sad, Petri. Many things cannot fly. Rocks . . . sticks . . . Spike.
The Land Before Time- Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
R. A. Dickinson- A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
- When silence speaks for love, she has much to say.
