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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost News and Media Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine News and Media
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show News and Media Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz News and Media
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) News and Media A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous News and Media
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe News and Media A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham News and Media
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses News and Media
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "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) News and Media "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) News and Media Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn News and Media
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) News and Media Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) News and Media
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) News and Media If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "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 News and Media "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov News and Media
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert News and Media
