If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality. ~Ivan Stang, High Weirdness By Mail If you smile at someone, they might smile back. ~Author Unknown
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find. ~Seneca
Is a smile a question? Or is it the answer? ~Lee Smith
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. ~Josh Billings
Michael W. Fox, vice-president of the Humane Society, said that, "to call an animal with whom you share your life a 'pet,' is reminiscent of men's magazines where you (a figure of speech, don't take it personally) have the Pet of the Month." It is supposed that the continued use of the word "pet" to designate dogs or cats threatens to reduce their level of respect to the current status of twentieth century North American women. Now that's radical. ~The McGill Red Herring
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ~John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. ~Jonathan Swift
My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law. ~Psalms 119:109
The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men. ~Henry David Thoreau
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. ~Tryon Edwards
A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. ~Author Unknown
Strikeouts are boring - besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls. More democratic. ~From the movie Bull Durham
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson
I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. ~Maya Angelou
Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them. ~Author Unknown
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet. ~Ann Landers
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top. ~Arnold Bennett
You can't take something off the Internet - it's like taking pee out of a pool. ~Author Unknown, 1995
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. ~Charlie Brown
Sometimes I think and other times I am. ~Paul Valery, Variete: Cantiques spirituels, 1924
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. ~Mark Twain I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. ~Mark Twain
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. ~Walt Whitman
You can kid the world. But not your sister. ~Charlotte Gray