What's new? Most of my wife. Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Rab There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Rab
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "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 Rab then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Rab
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Rab I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Rab
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Rab Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Rab
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "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) Rab "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Rab
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi 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 The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Rab "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Rab
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Rab Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Rab
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "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) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Rab Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Rab
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Rab I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Rab
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Rab "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Rab
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "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 Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot May you never leave your marriage alive. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Rab Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Rab
