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The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Radio "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Radio
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Radio I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Radio
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 May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Radio Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Radio
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Radio In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Radio
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Radio "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Radio
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes 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 Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Radio She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Radio
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Radio What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Radio
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Radio "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Radio
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Radio Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Radio
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Radio A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Radio
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Radio A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Radio
