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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. News and Media "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry News and Media
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi News and Media "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi News and Media
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) News and Media You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr News and Media
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy News and Media Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld News and Media
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith News and Media In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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. The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen News and Media
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor News and Media "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what News and Media
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West 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 Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, News and Media There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it News and Media
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) News and Media I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) News and Media
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston News and Media
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard News and Media "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 News and Media
