This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain News and Media Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield 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 News and Media
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa News and Media "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle News and Media
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis News and Media "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr News and Media
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton News and Media I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. News and Media
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu News and Media 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 If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) News and Media
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch News and Media Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Marriage is a rest period between romances. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells News and Media
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe 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 The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein News and Media The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous News and Media
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling News and Media I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen News and Media
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. News and Media "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan News and Media
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford News and Media A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) News and Media
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb News and Media It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) News and Media
