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-- Nikki Giovanni If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death News and Media Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous News and Media
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) News and Media Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow News and Media
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) News and Media Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden News and Media
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness News and Media "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey News and Media
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes News and Media Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson News and Media
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France News and Media 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) News and Media
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) News and Media Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita News and Media The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke News and Media
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W News and Media To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. News and Media
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant News and Media I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman News and Media Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "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" News and Media
