Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per News and Media Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
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Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer News and Media Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz News and Media
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) 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 Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous News and Media Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict News and Media
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley News and Media A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers News and Media
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich 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? Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell News and Media "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 are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. News and Media
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) News and Media Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) News and Media
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine News and Media "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell News and Media
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) News and Media You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal News and Media
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) News and Media Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) News and Media
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane News and Media Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) News and Media The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) News and Media
