The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson News and Media The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) News and Media
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward News and Media A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning News and Media
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker News and Media The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson News and Media
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost News and Media The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe News and Media
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker News and Media 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 The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) News and Media
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. News and Media Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin News and Media
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg News and Media Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx News and Media
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-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. News and Media Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael News and Media
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson News and Media 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 Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill News and Media
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "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." News and Media The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous News and Media
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams 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 The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop News and Media "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) News and Media
