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.
- Sir Winston Churchill Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg News and Media The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein News and Media
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President News and Media Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses News and Media
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous News and Media The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung News and Media
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho News and Media "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb News and Media "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) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt News and Media
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg News and Media When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr News and Media
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman News and Media Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
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 The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H News and Media Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) News and Media
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey News and Media Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) News and Media
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy News and Media We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens News and Media
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown News and Media If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
