But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Television A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Television
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
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-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Television For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Television
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Television "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Television
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- 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 Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Television "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Television
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Television Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Television
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Television The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Television
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "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) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Television When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Television
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Television Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Television
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Television Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Television
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) 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 The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Television blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Television
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Television "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
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