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"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, News and Media Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) News and Media
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat News and Media Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin News and Media
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. 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 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 News and Media The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger News and Media
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may News and Media University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber News and Media
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers News and Media Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer News and Media To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud News and Media
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre News and Media I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein News and Media
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) News and Media All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and News and Media
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 "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) News and Media No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l News and Media
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) News and Media I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) News and Media
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty News and Media Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) News and Media
