"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Events I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Events
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Events The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Events
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Events If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Events
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Events During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Events
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Events See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "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) Events
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Events Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Events
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Events Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Events
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Events An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Events
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Events Spinster: A bachelor's wife. 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 Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Events
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Events Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Events
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Events The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Events
