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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons News and Media Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) 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
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton News and Media 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 Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) News and Media
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln My other wife is beautiful. News and Media The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) News and Media
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Spinster: A bachelor's wife. In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire News and Media
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson News and Media "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France News and Media
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison News and Media I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb News and Media
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "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 It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney News and Media An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland News and Media
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) 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 It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) News and Media I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell News and Media
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil .. 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 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. "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow News and Media Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) News and Media
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche News and Media I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi News and Media
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson News and Media We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) News and Media
