SAYINGS XXXVII via JERRY-P-BECKER.
NOTE: The following quotations have been collected from a variety of sources ... from e-mail notes and signatures, bulletin boards, the ASCD SmartBrief and from other sources, as well, over some time. And a number come from Brainy Quotes at
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"Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today."
(Mark Twain)
"Chicken Little was right."
(Derives from the song) [From the signature of Roger Day]
"A lie can travel around the world in the time that it takes for truth to put its shoes on."
(Will Rogers) [Sent by Robert Kansky]
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
(Winston Churchill)
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, 'Who is destroying the world?' You are."
(Author: Ayn Rand (1905-1982) [From note from Dan Carpenter]
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
(Thomas Jefferson) [From note from Dan Carpenter]
"Commentaries on the Constitution": "The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
(Justice Joseph Story, 1833) [From note from Dan Carpenter]
"No good victory stays won."
(Roger Baldwin, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) founder)
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."
(Benjamin Franklin) [Suggested by Judy Sowder]
"We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public."
(Unknown) [From Sandy Lemberg]
"There's a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can't get away."
(Unknown) [From Sandy Lemberg]
"Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous."
(Will Rogers) [Sent by Robert Kansky]
"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."
(Benjamin Franklin)
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."
(Dalai Lama)
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
(Abraham Lincoln)
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
(Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
(Ben Hogan, famous golfer)
"A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation."
(Mark Twain)
"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."
(Albert Einstein)
"I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat."
(Harold Wilson)
"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."
(Thomas Jefferson)
"If you try to introduce people to a paradigm shift, they will hear what you have to say and then interpret your words in terms of their old paradigm. What does not fit, they will not hear. Therefore, a change in paradigm cannot be brought about by talking. People have to experience the change, or at a minimum see other people experiencing it, before they will begin to understand what you are saying."
(Myron Tribus - 2001) [Mentioned by Richard Hake in a posting on EDDRA2]
Q: What does the zero say to the the eight?
A: Nice belt!
(Unknown)
The math professor just accepted a new position at a university in another city and has to move. He and his wife pack all their belongings into cardboard boxes and have them shipped off to their new home. To sort out some family matters, the wife stays behind for a few more days while her husband has already left for their new residence.
The boxes arrive when the wife still hasn't rejoined her husband. When they talk on the phone in the evening, she asks him to count the boxes, just to make sure the movers didn't loose any of them.
"Thirty nine boxes altogether", says the prof on the phone.
"That can't be", the wife exclaims. "The movers picked up forty boxes at our old place."
The prof counts once again, but again his count only reaches 39.
The next morning, the wife calls the moving company and complains. The company promises to check; a few hours later, someone calls back and reports that all forty boxes did arrive.
In the evening, when the prof and his wife are on the phone again, she asks: "I don't understand it. When you count, you get 39, and when they do, they get 40. That's more than strange..."
"Well", the prof says. "This is a cordless phone, so you can stay on the line and count with me: zero, one, two, three,..."
(From Volker Runde, Math Jokes) [Reference given by Rachel Chaplin]
"War does not determine who is right, only who is left."
(Unknown) [From Sandy Lemberg]
"I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure."
(Unknown) [From Sandy Lemberg]
"A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live."
(Bob Hope, comedian) [From a note from J. D. Becker]
"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."
(Yogi Berra)
"A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man."
(Unknown) [Seen on an Applebee's Noteboard]
"What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?"
(W. Clement Stone)
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
(Albert Einstein)
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