"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Reunions and Alumni "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Reunions and Alumni
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Reunions and Alumni No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Reunions and Alumni
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Reunions and Alumni Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Reunions and Alumni
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Reunions and Alumni Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Reunions and Alumni
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Reunions and Alumni I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Reunions and Alumni
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Reunions and Alumni "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Reunions and Alumni
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Reunions and Alumni Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock 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 If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Reunions and Alumni
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reunions and Alumni Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Reunions and Alumni
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Reunions and Alumni Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Reunions and Alumni
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Reunions and Alumni Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Reunions and Alumni
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Reunions and Alumni When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Reunions and Alumni
