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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Government The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Government
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 Government To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert 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 "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Government
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Government "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) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Government
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Government Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Government
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Government There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Government
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Government A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Government
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Government I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Government
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "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 Government When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Government
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Government 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 Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Government
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Government I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "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 Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Government
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Government Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 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 Government
