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"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr 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 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman News and Media
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol News and Media
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) News and Media This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words News and Media
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt News and Media To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) News and Media
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." 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 "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson News and Media An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz News and Media
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B News and Media Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken News and Media
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins News and Media Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson News and Media
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni News and Media I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin News and Media
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little News and Media The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins 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
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper News and Media "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner News and Media
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "... 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) 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 purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) News and Media The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting News and Media
