After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther News and Media Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. News and Media
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder News and Media Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really News and Media
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) News and Media Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody News and Media
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford News and Media Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around 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 Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht News and Media Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson News and Media
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire 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 "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) News and Media Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson News and Media
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan News and Media "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous News and Media
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno News and Media Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. 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 News and Media
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen News and Media The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) News and Media
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting News and Media If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett News and Media
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom News and Media Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media
