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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. ~John W. Gardner



An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. ~Juvenal, Satires



Farmer: "You should have seen how he treated them when I wasn't around."



Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. ~Eric Hoffer



The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate



To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness. ~Henri Frederic Amiel



I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now. ~Will Rogers



Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. ~Mark Twain



There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex. ~Billy Joel



There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined. ~Anne Petry



Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance. ~Joseph Addison



Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. ~Jefferson Machamer



I can't be a rose in any man's lapel. ~Margaret Trudeau



The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. ~Victor Frankl



History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies. ~Frederick Maurice Powicke, Three Lectures



An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb



I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world. ~George Washington



Ah, the things we would do if we could - especially in the secure knowledge that we can't. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com