Quotations:

Gore Vidal


It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

John Holt


...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Gerald Barzan


Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.

Kelly Marshall


It matters not how tall you are, but how straight you grow.

Jimmy Carter, Spech in March 1976


We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Tallulah Bankhead


It's the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time.

Neil Kinnock


I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

Nathaniel Hawthorne


In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

George Gurdjieff


Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Thomas Jefferson


One man with courage is a majority.

Turkish Proverb


A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Richard Jeni


It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!