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What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain 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 If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to News and Media
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart News and Media "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) News and Media
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 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 "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe 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 "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain News and Media
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) News and Media Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous News and Media
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed News and Media
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) News and Media "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W News and Media
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) News and Media 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. A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason News and Media
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) News and Media It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) 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 A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 News and Media
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) News and Media Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) News and Media
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) News and Media The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens News and Media
