Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, News and Media Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) News and Media
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest News and Media Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) News and Media There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller News and Media
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell News and Media "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is News and Media
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung 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 "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke News and Media University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words News and Media
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne News and Media "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay News and Media The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel 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? News and Media
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers News and Media "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin News and Media
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol 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 Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot News and Media Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff News and Media
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "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 Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. News and Media Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom 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 News and Media
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life News and Media Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx 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
