This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball News and Media "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) News and Media
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) News and Media "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler News and Media
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James News and Media Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright News and Media
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins News and Media We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) News and Media
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason News and Media Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings 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 "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) News and Media
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown News and Media We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow News and Media
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton News and Media
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) News and Media Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "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 News and Media
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers 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 "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) News and Media May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) News and Media
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran News and Media "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner News and Media
