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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm News and Media Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill News and Media
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell News and Media We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous News and Media
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge News and Media It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano News and Media Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) News and Media
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 "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) News and Media I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson News and Media
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. News and Media Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) News and Media
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer News and Media Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France News and Media
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus News and Media There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra News and Media
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T News and Media Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 News and Media
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf News and Media Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov News and Media
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna News and Media Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale News and Media
