From an email list by Jerry Becker:

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."(Mark Twain)

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."(Mark Twain)

"If you give me four hours to chop down a tree, I will spend three sharpening my ax."(Abraham Lincoln) [Sent by Ken Jensen]

"Tests alone can't evaluate teachers."(Gerald Bracey, researcher/writer in education matters)

"Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you." (Winston Churchill) [From Paul Agranoff]

"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?"(Frank Scully, American writer)

"Judging mathematics by its pragmatic value is like judging symphonia by the weight of its score."(Alexander Bogomolny, creator of "Cut the Knot") [Sent by Sandy Lemberg]

"Correction does much, but encouragement does more."(Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

"Because we know America can't out compete the world tomorrow if our children are being out educated today, we are making the largest investment in education in our nation's history."(President Barack Obama) [from Education News Parents Can Use]

"If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer."(Dag Hammarskjold) [From Sanderson Smith, via Rex Boggs]

"The wildest colts make the best horses."(Plutarch) [From Sanderson Smith, via Rex Boggs]

"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."(George Washington, 1st U.S. president)"

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody."(Helen Gurley Brown) [From Sanderson Smith, via Rex Boggs]

"To succeed, you must first improve; to improve, you must first practice; to practice, you must first learn; to learn, you must first fail"

(Wesley Woo) [From Sanderson Smith, via Rex Boggs and Jonathan Lundell]"Fail again. Fail better."(Jonathan Lundell)

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."(Charles Dickens, English novelist, from "Great Expectations)

"Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it."(Lisa Alther, American novelist)

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed."(Booker T. Washington, American author, educator and black leader)

"Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it."(John Naisbitt, American author and public speaker)

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."(Mahatma Gandhi) [From the signature of Rashida Foluke]

"My theory about birthdays (printed on cover of birthday card) ... age is relative (printed inside the card).

"(seen on a birthday card, with a photo of Albert Einstein on the cover)

"I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it." (W. C. Fields) [From Paul Agranoff]

"Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat." (Alex Levine) [From Paul Agranoff]

"My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying." (Rodney Dangerfield) [From Paul Agranoff]

"Money can't buy you happiness ... But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery." (Spike Milligan) [From Paul Agranoff]

"I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap." (Bob Hope) [From Paul Agranoff]*****************************************************