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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama News and Media "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA News and Media
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words News and Media "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty News and Media
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche News and Media Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good News and Media
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman News and Media Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) News and Media
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. News and Media When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry News and Media
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown News and Media Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb News and Media
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain News and Media When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. News and Media
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) News and Media Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat News and Media
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston News and Media "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana News and Media
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise 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 News and Media I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) News and Media
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) News and Media I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) News and Media
