A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy News and Media A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan News and Media
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) News and Media The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings News and Media
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman News and Media With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. 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 News and Media
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 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) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) News and Media In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson 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 "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "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 News and Media Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo 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 "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) News and Media
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV News and Media "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) News and Media
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
News and Media Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) News and Media "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? News and Media
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. News and Media Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones News and Media
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken News and Media "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "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) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius News and Media
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton News and Media If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) News and Media
