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"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset News and Media "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) 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 Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante News and Media
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer News and Media This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf News and Media
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) News and Media In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler 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 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings News and Media
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins News and Media Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had News and Media
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw 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 What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol News and Media Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer News and Media
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and News and Media Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e News and Media
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. News and Media The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) News and Media
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) 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 Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song News and Media I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) News and Media
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner News and Media To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) News and Media
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy News and Media We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) News and Media
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe News and Media "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t News and Media
