Wise Men Said
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Wise Men Said
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| School Days from my Algebra Teacher |
If your grades aren't becoming to you then you should be coming to me. If you were caught looking at the clock... Time will pass, will you? |
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| Zen | I know the sound of two hands clapping, but what is the sound of one hand clapping?
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| Lazarus Long | All men ar created unequal.
Anything free is worth what you pay for it. Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. The greatest productive force is human selfishness. Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. What a man was 2000 years ago means nothing at all to me today. Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. | |
| Mark Twain | Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
Never let school interfere with an education. If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a man and a dog. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. | |
| Ben Franklin | Guests are like fish. After three days they begin to smell.
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| Anonymous | Don't spit into the wind.
Don't eat yellow snow. Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. If you are constantly looking back, chances are pretty good you'll fall into a hole ahead. There are two types of fools: Those who trust everyone and those who trust no one. Beware of the most dangerous person in business -- the articulate incompetent. The world is divided into people who get things done, and people who get the credit. Anyone in business who burns his bridges better be a damned good swimmer. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. A closed mouth fathers no foot. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. A winner never quits, and a quitter never wins. There's an old saying among basketball coaches: It's not about the Xs and Os, it's about the Jimmys and Joes | |
| Albert Einstein | 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.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. The important thing is not to stop questioning. | |
| W. C. Fields | I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.
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| Fred Allen | There is a town so dull up here the tide went out one day and never came back in.
Life is uphill -- don't pull down the load. | |
| Mario Andretti | If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
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| Bill Austin | There are no problems, only opportunities.
Everything changes, everything stays the same. | |
| Yogi Berra | It ain't over till it's over.
You can observe a lot just by watchin'. You got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. | |
| Robert Frost | I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a woods, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference An idea is a feat of association. | |
| H.L. Mencken | Do not overestimate the decency of the human race.
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| Robert Oppenheimer | The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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| Plato | Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws
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| George Schultz | The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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| Seneca | It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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| Abraham Lincoln | There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war.
Except its ending.
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| Ross Perot | Measure twice ... cut once
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| Victor Borge | The shortest distance between two people is a smile.
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| Thomas Edison | Nearly every man who develops and idea, works it up to a point
where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work. | |
| Vince Lombardi | Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner. | |
| Julia Child | I just hate health food.
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| E. F. Schumacher |
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction."
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| Frank LLoyd Wright | The truth is more important than the facts.
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| Richard Whately | He is only exempt from failures who makes no effort.
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| A. G. Buckham | Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.
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| Sandra Day O'Connor | I don't know that there are any shortcuts to doing a good job.
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| Pearl Buck | The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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| Gore Vidal | A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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| Watterson Lowe | Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
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| Changing Times magazine | An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
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| Carlos Castenada | Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. | |
| Alistair Cooke | A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
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| Bill Cosby | I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
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| John B. Shereen | Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves.
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| Groucho Marx | Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore.
I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't
really listening. It ruins communication.
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| Janis Joplin | Now that I'm here, where am I?
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| Jacques Chardonnes | The finest amusements are the most pointless ones.
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| Erich Fromm | There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
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| Robert Louis Stevenson | Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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| John Lubbock | A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.
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| John Wooden | Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do..
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| Charles H. Spurgeon | Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself.
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| Eleanor Roosevelt | The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
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| Douglas Adams | The biggest problem encountered while trying to design a system that was completely foolproof, was, that people tended to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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| Danny Kaye | Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
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