It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.

Charles Dickens

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Terry Pratchett

Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream --and yet God blesses it!

Georges Bernanos

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

Woody Allen

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.

Christopher Hitchens

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Alfred Tennyson

The doctor asked what my diet was like and I had to sit down and realize it's not normal, and hadn't been normal for about 20 years.

Carre Otis

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

Mark Twain

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

Mary Douglas