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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland News and Media Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen News and Media
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton News and Media "Think off-center." (George Carlin) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy News and Media
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) News and Media "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke News and Media
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury News and Media Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells News and Media We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 News and Media
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes News and Media blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast News and Media
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte News and Media "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) News and Media
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith News and Media I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous News and Media
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton News and Media
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye News and Media People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi News and Media
