"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole News and Media We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove News and Media
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) News and Media Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. News and Media
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 It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries News and Media "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins News and Media
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster 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 "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne News and Media
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville News and Media Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard News and Media
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous 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. In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands News and Media It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas News and Media
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender News and Media Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) News and Media
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller News and Media "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "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
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld News and Media "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker News and Media
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) News and Media "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder News and Media
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington News and Media Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen 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
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