"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin 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 Audio and Video Production "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Audio and Video Production
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Audio and Video Production I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Audio and Video Production
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck 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 Audio and Video Production When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Audio and Video Production
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 The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Audio and Video Production "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Audio and Video Production
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Audio and Video Production "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo 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
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Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Audio and Video Production He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Audio and Video Production
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "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) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Audio and Video Production 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 The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Audio and Video Production
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Audio and Video Production "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 The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Audio and Video Production
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Audio and Video Production The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Audio and Video Production
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Audio and Video Production Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Audio and Video Production
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Audio and Video Production Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Audio and Video Production
