Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach. ~Peter Drucker
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. ~Mel Brooks
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. ~Evelyn Waugh
We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity. ~Will Rogers
The rest of the world loves soccer. Surely we must be missing something. Uh, isn't that what the Russians told us about communism? There's a good reason why you don't care about soccer - it's because you are an American and hating soccer is more American than mom's apple pie, driving a pick-up and spending Saturday afternoon channel-surfing with the remote control. ~Tom Weir
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. ~James Bryce
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. ~Andrew V. Mason
Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down. ~Leo Rosenberg
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach
We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet. ~Jeremy Rifkin, World Press Review, 30 December 1989
Your heart knows your song, but you have to be willing to listen to the words. ~Sue Rock, http://sue215.blogspot.com
Love is what you've been through with somebody. ~James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. ~Bertrand Russell
Knowledge of history frees us to be contemporary. ~Lynn White, Jr.
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844
Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage. ~Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
We have smothered ourselves, buried ourselves, in the vast heap of information which all of us have and none of us has. ~Gamaliel Bradford
Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. ~Ani Difranco
Life is full of obstacle illusions. ~Grant Frazier
Tradition: sit with husband in a room lit only by tree lights and remember that our blessings outnumber the lights. Happy Christmas to all. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. ~Andrew Carnegie
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay. ~George Bernard Shaw