Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman News and Media The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner News and Media
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway News and Media "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer News and Media
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. News and Media We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford News and Media
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. News and Media Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) News and Media
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins 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 Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates News and Media
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan News and Media The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats News and Media
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson News and Media Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon News and Media
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields News and Media "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb News and Media
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) News and Media Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch 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 We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry News and Media
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 News and Media Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell News and Media
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous News and Media "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker News and Media
